{"id":111434,"date":"2025-10-30T02:43:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T02:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/111434\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T02:43:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T02:43:13","slug":"abandoned-petrol-stations-around-ireland-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/111434\/","title":{"rendered":"Abandoned petrol stations around Ireland \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Sir, \u2013 As I drive around the country for work, I spot so many abandoned petrol stations. Usually followed, nearby, by a shiny new one. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">The abandoned stations are often left to rot with the future sale and development of the land often complicated by contaminated soil among other issues. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Would it be so hard to enforce proper dismantling of these unsightly structures as a condition of sale and some form of contribution to cleaning the land for future use? <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Maybe a levy on existing petrol stations could help alleviate the inherent costs of abandoned sites. \u2013 Yours, etc,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">EMMETT McNAMARA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Na Forbacha,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Galway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir, \u2013 As I drive around the country for work, I spot so many abandoned petrol stations. Usually&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,39639,43],"class_list":["post-111434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-letter-of-the-day","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}