{"id":37589,"date":"2023-11-17T14:34:10","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T14:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/?p=37589"},"modified":"2023-11-17T15:05:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T15:05:45","slug":"barton-house-some-residents-belongings-being-removed-by-the-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/2023\/11\/17\/barton-house-some-residents-belongings-being-removed-by-the-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Barton House: some residents&#8217; belongings being removed by the Council"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" controls src=\"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/belongings-final.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Barton House residents find out their belongings are being removed: Laura Wehner<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bristol City Council has reportedly removed residents&#8217; belongings from Barton House, which was evacuated on Tuesday night over safety concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Residents and campaigners were protesting at City Hall when it was announced that council officials were removing people&#8217;s belongings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, Bristol City Council has clarified that belongings will be removed from only three flats to allow for surveys to take place. No other belongings will be removed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The below update has been issued to Barton House residents. Read below \u2935\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ORQgv5hlLI\">pic.twitter.com\/ORQgv5hlLI<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Bristol City Council (@BristolCouncil) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BristolCouncil\/status\/1725489304489591161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 17, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Members of the Bristol community gathered inside City Hall this morning to show solidarity with the Barton House residents and demand answers from the Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than 400 people were evacuated from the tower block after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bristol.gov.uk\/residents\/housing\/council-tenants\/barton-house-evacuation\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.bristol.gov.uk\/residents\/housing\/council-tenants\/barton-house-evacuation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Council received a report<\/a> showing that the block may be unsafe in the event of a fire or explosion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/house-copy.jpg\" alt=\"a person holding a sign\" class=\"wp-image-37670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/house-copy.jpg 700w, https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/house-copy-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/house-copy-640x366.jpg 640w, https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/house-copy-681x389.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Barton House residents protest at City Hall: Nadia Ferraris<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bristol City Council has reportedly removed residents&#8217; belongings from Barton House, which was evacuated on Tuesday night over safety concerns. Residents and campaigners were protesting at City Hall when it was announced that council officials were removing people&#8217;s belongings. However, Bristol City Council has clarified that belongings will be removed from only three flats to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":37670,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37589"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37719,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37589\/revisions\/37719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}