{"id":6847,"date":"2013-11-29T18:52:45","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T18:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=6847"},"modified":"2013-11-29T18:52:45","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T18:52:45","slug":"irelands-ghost-estates-face-exorcism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=6847","title":{"rendered":"Ireland\u2019s ghost estates face exorcism\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Some 40 unfinished and unwanted housing estates in Ireland face demolition following the collapse of the country\u2019s planning system under the so-called \u2018Celtic Tiger\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Irish Independent writes:<br \/>\n<\/span>Work is underway to demolish 40 Irish ghost estates next year.<\/p>\n<p>Housing Minister Jan O\u2019Sullivan has identified the 40 unfinished estates which she wants cleared in the next 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>This is an initial list with plans to add other properties to the hit list where it is clear they can never be sold.<\/p>\n<p>Ms O\u2019Sullivan\u2019s department has liaised with local authorities to identify the estates and council officials are now in touch with the banks and developers associated with each site.<\/p>\n<p>Her spokesman said:\u00a0\u00a0\u2018The vast majority of these estates are only at the stage where foundations are laid or groundworks carried out. We are looking to return them to green field status. \u2018<\/p>\n<p>He added no one lives in the estates on the list but the locations could not be identified until the owners had decided whether to complete them or bulldoze the existing work.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Independent IE News article<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.ie\/irish-news\/40-ghost-estates-set-for-demolition-29763282.html\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some 40 unfinished and unwanted housing estates in Ireland face demolition following the collapse of the country\u2019s planning system under the so-called \u2018Celtic Tiger\u2019. The Irish Independent writes: Work is underway to demolish 40 Irish ghost estates next year. Housing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=6847\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6847","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\/6847","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6848,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6847\/revisions\/6848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}