{"id":44714,"date":"2025-11-25T16:08:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T16:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=44714"},"modified":"2025-11-24T17:19:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T17:19:57","slug":"ihbc-features-heritage-from-the-lottery-doorstep-historic-birnbeck-pier-saved-as-surprise-funding-announced-from-nlhf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=44714","title":{"rendered":"IHBC features \u2018Heritage from the (Lottery) doorstep\u2019: Historic Birnbeck pier saved as surprise funding announced from NLHF"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Birnbeck_Pier_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_4574410_Oliver_Mills_Commons_Wiki.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"256\" height=\"93\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Birnbeck_Pier_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_4574410_Oliver_Mills_Commons_Wiki.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41551\" style=\"width:515px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em><sub>image for illustration: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Birnbeck_Pier_-geograph.org.uk-_4574410.jpg\">Birnbeck Pier<\/a> by\u00a0Oliver Mills, <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>The restoration of a historic pier has been saved just before councillors were to cancel the project thanks to the National Lottery Heritage Fund, reports the BBC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The BBC writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Councillors had been expecting to vote to cancel the project before the surprise funding was announced\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead of voting to scrap the project, councillors instead voted to accept the new funding to continue the restoration of the pier\u2026 Council leader Mike Bell added: \u2018It was\u2026 unexpected and last minute but\u2026 absolutely the product of hard work\u2026 a real vote of confidence\u2026.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pier is among six Grade II listed piers in England and the only in the UK to connect the mainland to an island&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c4gzevjep4vo\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>image for illustration: Birnbeck Pier by\u00a0Oliver Mills, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons The restoration of a historic pier has been saved just before councillors were to cancel the project thanks to the National Lottery Heritage Fund, reports the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=44714\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[6,18,30,23,62,29,544,16,22],"class_list":["post-44714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog","tag-building","tag-conservation","tag-environment","tag-expertise","tag-funding","tag-heritage","tag-localauthority","tag-planning","tag-skills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44714","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=44714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44715,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44714\/revisions\/44715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}