{"id":44523,"date":"2025-11-04T16:08:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T16:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=44523"},"modified":"2025-11-03T18:03:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:03:00","slug":"ihbc-features-heritage-from-the-doorstep-council-could-take-legal-action-after-collapse-at-ledbury-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=44523","title":{"rendered":"IHBC features \u2018Heritage from the doorstep\u2019: Council could take legal action after collapse at Ledbury building"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/High_Street_Ledbury_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_6404498-Colin_Park_cropped.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"478\" height=\"306\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/High_Street_Ledbury_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_6404498-Colin_Park_cropped.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/High_Street_Ledbury_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_6404498-Colin_Park_cropped.png 478w, https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/High_Street_Ledbury_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_6404498-Colin_Park_cropped-300x192.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><sub>image for illustration: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:High_Street,Ledbury-geograph.org.uk-_6404498.jpg\">High Street, Ledbury<\/a> by\u00a0Colin Park, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\">CC BY-SA 2.0<\/a>, via Wikimedia Commons<\/sub><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Herefordshire Council is considering taking legal action after a collapse at a building in Ledbury town centre, writes <em>The Ledbury Reporter.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The Ledbury Reporter<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Building Control has written to the owner of an empty shop unit on the High Street over safety concerns\u2026. The council said it has not yet reached a \u2018satisfactory conclusion\u2019\u2026 now considering a court order, which would require the owner to make the building safe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A spokesperson for Herefordshire Council said: \u2018Our Building Control Team is following the Building Act 1985, section 77 process\u2026 The team will now meet with legal services to establish the likelihood of obtaining a court order through the section 77 process, specifically to make the rear of the building safe.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ledburyreporter.co.uk\/news\/25510579.council-take-legal-action-collapse-ledbury-building\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>image for illustration: High Street, Ledbury by\u00a0Colin Park, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Herefordshire Council is considering taking legal action after a collapse at a building in Ledbury town centre, writes The Ledbury Reporter.<\/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":[18,30,23,29,93,544,16,261,63],"class_list":["post-44523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog","tag-conservation","tag-environment","tag-expertise","tag-heritage","tag-legislation","tag-localauthority","tag-planning","tag-safety","tag-town"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44523","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=44523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44525,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44523\/revisions\/44525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}