Chester City Hall.The city intends to use the blight data to clean up blighted areas and buildings while improving community safety and helping to increase real estate value.(KATHLEEN E.

What qualifies a building as derelict or vacant? Dereliction is the almost inevitable consequence of long-term vacancy. Various agencies hold data on vacancy – Geodirectory, which uses data from ...

People living near the city’s derelict buildings have raised concerns that not enough is being done to protect them from arsonists after a spate of fires. When a blaze was started at the former Van ...

Dublin City Council operates the Derelict Sites Register under legislation introduced in 1990. The register is somewhat confusingly named as most properties are buildings, not sites. Adding to ...

Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service reported they found a derelict building on fire. Four firefighters wearing breathing apparatus were tasked with tackling the fire, with the crews using ...

FIREFIGHTERS tackled a derelict building blaze late on Wednesday night. Two crews from Burley and Ringwood, in the New Forest, were called to the fire off The Close in Ringwood at about 9.30pm. They ...

THERE IS A LARGE POLICE PRESENCE IN SOUTHEAST ALBUQUERQUE AS OFFICERS WORK TO CLEAR A BUILDING. IT IS HAPPENING NEAR SOUTHERN AND SAN PEDRO. INVESTIGATORS SAY OFFICERS WERE CLEARING AN ABANDONED ...

UNRELATED TO THE INSURRECTION. A KANSAS CITY FIREFIGHTER SPENT THE MORNING BATTLING A MASSIVE FIRE AT AN ABANDONED APARTMENT BUILDING. FIREFIGHTERS SAY THE CALL FOR THIS BLAZE AT NINTH STREET AND ...

People living near the city’s derelict buildings have raised concerns that not enough is being done to protect them from arsonists after a spate of fires. When a blaze was started at the former ...

A spokeswoman from Hampshire fire service said: “On the evening of February 5 at 9.37pm Ringwood and Burley crews responded to a fire in a derelict building in Ringwood.