{"id":34225,"date":"2025-09-08T22:33:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T21:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34225"},"modified":"2025-09-08T22:33:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T21:33:59","slug":"work-starts-on-west-st-helen-street-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34225","title":{"rendered":"Work Starts on West St Helen Street Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025090804.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nWork has begun to take down the end wall of the scaffolded building near the top of West St Helen Street.<\/p>\n<p>The scaffold was erected in October 2024 after widening cracks led the district council\u2019s Building Control team to act on safety grounds.<\/p>\n<p>The situation has affected many people. Pedestrian access has been restricted, which has been particularly difficult for disabled and elderly people. It has also closed off rear access and parking for some residents and blocked the rear access to the Grapes pub (currently under refurbishment). Residents of the flats above moved out, and Pappy\u2019s Jamaican restaurant was forced to vacate the building.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025090801.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nNo timescale for completion has been announced, although Pappy\u2019s put up a &#8216;Coming Soon&#8217; banner a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work has begun to take down the end wall of the scaffolded building near the top of West St Helen Street. The scaffold was erected in October 2024 after widening cracks led the district council\u2019s Building Control team to act on safety grounds. The situation has affected many people. Pedestrian access has been restricted, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-building-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34225","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=34225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}