{"id":26099,"date":"2020-10-13T21:27:18","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T21:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=26099"},"modified":"2020-10-13T21:27:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T21:27:18","slug":"leaves-falling-at-old-abbey-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=26099","title":{"rendered":"Leaves Falling at Old Abbey House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020101306.jpg\" alt=\"Old Abbey House\" \/><br \/>\nA lot of people were being shown round Old Abbey House last month. Now the autumn leaves are settling and the visits have slowed.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020101307.jpg\" alt=\"Old Abbey House\" \/><br \/>\nAt present this building is a community asset that is not being used, and has been empty for several years. As a result the windows had to be protected.<\/p>\n<p>Potential buyers will be working through the figures, deciding how much they can afford to pay, and what they will do with Old Abbey House.<\/p>\n<p>The Friends of Abingdon Civic Society have put together a proposal that the building become an Arts and Community Centre for the Eastern Vale.\u00a0 A summary of their ideas can be seen on the <a href=\"https:\/\/abingdoncivicsociety.org.uk\/old-abbey-house-update\/\">Abingdon Civic Society web site.<\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020101303.jpg\" alt=\"Old Abbey House\" \/><br \/>\nThe Vale of White Horse District Council Cabinet will consider a report on the commercial bids and the community proposals at a meeting on 4th December.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020101304.jpg\" alt=\"Old Abbey House\" \/><br \/>\nIf the Vale Cabinet get a decent commercial bid: one that\u00a0 gives them the asking price (somebody mentioned \u00a31m), and a use that is acceptable, then that will be considered.<\/p>\n<p>If they get a community proposal that looks workable, then they could allow it to be progressed to see if it will work out.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-size: 1rem;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020101305.jpg\" alt=\"Old Abbey House\" \/><br \/>\nIf they get both, then it will be like comparing apples and pears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of people were being shown round Old Abbey House last month. Now the autumn leaves are settling and the visits have slowed. At present this building is a community asset that is not being used, and has been empty for several years. As a result the windows had to be protected. Potential buyers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}