{"id":33268,"date":"2025-01-23T15:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T15:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33268"},"modified":"2025-01-23T15:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T15:27:10","slug":"abbey-hall-roof-repairs-cinema-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33268","title":{"rendered":"Abbey Hall Roof Repairs &#038; Cinema Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025012302.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAn update from Abingdon-on-Thames Town Council has been issued at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abingdon.gov.uk\/news\/update-on-the-abbey-hall\">https:\/\/www.abingdon.gov.uk\/news\/update-on-the-abbey-hall<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Work to fix the roof of the Abbey Hall will start in early February to ensure the building&#8217;s safety. It has been closed with Asbestos and Reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) issues since 2nd October 2024. The Asbestos has already been made safe and so the RAAC work needs doing.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025012301.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe Abbey Cinema can continue operating rent-free from the Old Magistrate&#8217;s Court until 31st March 2025. This is a smaller venue with cheaper tickets.<\/p>\n<p>After the roof is fixed, the auditorium will be &#8216;decorated to make good&#8217; and the town council says, &#8216;It is hoped that the Abbey Cinema will then be back in the auditorium and that their normal service will be resumed.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>It was said before Christmas, &#8216;The cost of the measures so far has been \u00a3180,000 and<br \/>\nthe Council has been advised that the cost of a full renovation of Abbey Hall would be \u00a32,500,000, which is beyond the Council\u2019s financial resources.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An update from Abingdon-on-Thames Town Council has been issued at https:\/\/www.abingdon.gov.uk\/news\/update-on-the-abbey-hall Work to fix the roof of the Abbey Hall will start in early February to ensure the building&#8217;s safety. It has been closed with Asbestos and Reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) issues since 2nd October 2024. The Asbestos has already been made safe and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guildhall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33268","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=33268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}