{"id":473065,"date":"2026-03-13T08:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/473065\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T08:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:21:08","slug":"demolition-of-fire-ravaged-building-at-glasgow-central-to-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/473065\/","title":{"rendered":"Demolition of fire-ravaged building at Glasgow Central to begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A &#8220;safe zone&#8221; has been set up around the building, extending to Central Station which will remain closed for the rest of the week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council took control of the site from the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) on Thursday and carried out its own assessment of the damaged structure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Raymond Barlow, from the council&#8217;s building standards team, said it was not possible for the council to say exactly which aspects of the building could be saved, nor how long the demolition will take.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;You are talking a good number of weeks before we see any change to aspects around here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We need to start work at one end of the site, take off the highest bits of danger and hopefully that will let us start to access parts of the station and get the station back up before coming to the fa\u00e7ade.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council said crews would work around the clock, but timescales were weather-dependent as cranes cannot be used in high winds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A &#8220;safe zone&#8221; has been set up around the building, extending to Central Station which will remain closed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-473065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}