{"id":6263,"date":"2012-04-02T22:57:26","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T21:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=6263"},"modified":"2012-04-02T22:57:26","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T21:57:26","slug":"4-million-refurbishment-of-abbey-shopping-centre-precinct-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=6263","title":{"rendered":"\u00a34 million refurbishment of Abbey Shopping Centre \/ Precinct begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12040201.jpg\" alt=\"\u00a34 million refurbishment begins\" \/><br \/>\nOn twitter I see from the Vale of White Horse District Council <em>&#8220;Work has started on the much anticipated \u00a34 million refurbishment of Abingdon\u2019s main retail area Abbey Shopping Centre. &#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There is not a lot to see yet. There is some scaffolding round the back of some shops. There are also barriers stored in one shop, and a McLaren sign in another. McLaren are the chosen contractor. <\/p>\n<p>The finished project is available to view on youtube &#8230;<br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"420\" height=\"243\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WIjGMCUwpgA?version=3&amp;hl=en_GB\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"420\" height=\"243\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WIjGMCUwpgA?version=3&amp;hl=en_GB\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\nMatthew Barber, leader of the district council said &#8220;<em>I would ask that residents bear with us over summer while the work is being carried out, and that they continue to visit the town centre and support our local traders in the meantime.<\/em>\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On twitter I see from the Vale of White Horse District Council &#8220;Work has started on the much anticipated \u00a34 million refurbishment of Abingdon\u2019s main retail area Abbey Shopping Centre. &#8220; There is not a lot to see yet. There is some scaffolding round the back of some shops. There are also barriers stored in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abbey-shopping-centre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6263","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=6263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}