{"id":580547,"date":"2026-08-26T04:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T04:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/580547\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T04:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T04:48:10","slug":"police-investigate-sudden-death-at-wellingtons-gordon-wilson-flats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/580547\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigate sudden death at Wellington\u2019s Gordon Wilson Flats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are investigating a sudden death at the Gordon Wilson Flats in Wellington this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Police were notified of the incident on The Terrace in Te Aro at around 8am on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Motorists are advised to avoid the southern end of The Terrace and to expect delays,&#8221; a police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>Footage captured by 1News shows police at the scene outside the building, which is currently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2025\/12\/02\/gordon-wilson-flats-demolition-to-begin-this-month\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">undergoing demolition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Gordon Wilson Flats were subject to a long-running process over their former heritage listing, which prevented their demolition for years.<\/p>\n<p>The flats were used as social housing until 2012, when an engineer&#8217;s report deemed them unsafe, and they have been left vacant since.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2025\/12\/02\/gordon-wilson-flats-demolition-to-begin-this-month\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>Victoria University, who now own the flats, and WorkSafe have been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are investigating a sudden death at the Gordon Wilson Flats in Wellington this morning. Police were notified&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39,52],"class_list":["post-580547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-wellington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}