{"id":43662,"date":"2025-08-05T12:54:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T11:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=43662"},"modified":"2025-08-05T12:54:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T11:54:41","slug":"architect-reports-glasgow-city-council-to-police-over-tenement-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=43662","title":{"rendered":"Architect reports Glasgow City Council to police over tenement collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An architect has reported Glasgow City Council to Police Scotland, alleging that the local authority failed in its legal responsibility to maintain a derelict tenement in Pollokshields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Scottish Housing News<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sandstone tenement, a category B listed building\u2026 had stood abandoned since a fire gutted the property in 2020\u2026 the structure crumbled, prompting emergency evacuations\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The architect has filed a formal complaint with Police Scotland, stating that the council failed to uphold its statutory duties\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A spokesperson for Glasgow City Council confirmed that fencing had been installed around the building for some time prior to the collapse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottishhousingnews.com\/articles\/architect-reports-glasgow-city-council-to-police-over-tenement-collapse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An architect has reported Glasgow City Council to Police Scotland, alleging that the local authority failed in its legal responsibility to maintain a derelict tenement in Pollokshields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43662","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=43662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43663,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43662\/revisions\/43663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}