{"id":43501,"date":"2025-07-15T16:08:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T15:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=43501"},"modified":"2025-07-13T18:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T17:44:09","slug":"ihbc-features-heritage-from-the-doorstep-future-of-southends-kursaal-discussed-at-parliament-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=43501","title":{"rendered":"IHBC features \u2018Heritage from the doorstep\u2019: Future of Southend&#8217;s Kursaal discussed at Parliament meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The future of a landmark seafront building in Southend, the Kursaal, has been discussed at a meeting in Parliament, reports <em>The Echo.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Echo<\/em> writes:<br>Bayo Alaba, MP for Southend East and Rochford, organised a meeting on Tuesday with AEW, Southend Council, and Historic England to discuss the future of the Kursaal. He said: \u2018\u2026 We also had the chance to feedback to AEW about what local residents want to see for the Kursaal\u2019s future\u2026.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The leader of Southend Council, councillor Daniel Cowan\u2026 added: \u2018My administration has made it clear that getting the Kursaal back into use is a key motivation for us&#8230;\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.echo-news.co.uk\/news\/25264285.future-southends-kursaal-discussed-parliament-meeting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The future of a landmark seafront building in Southend, the Kursaal, has been discussed at a meeting in Parliament, reports The Echo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,18,23,9,29,172,16],"class_list":["post-43501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog","tag-building","tag-conservation","tag-expertise","tag-government","tag-heritage","tag-local-government","tag-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43502,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43501\/revisions\/43502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}