{"id":59882,"date":"2026-09-01T18:04:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T18:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/no-timescale-for-demolition-of-greenock-homes-built-with-unsafe-raac\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T18:04:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T18:04:57","slug":"no-timescale-for-demolition-of-greenock-homes-built-with-unsafe-raac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/no-timescale-for-demolition-of-greenock-homes-built-with-unsafe-raac\/","title":{"rendered":"No timescale for demolition of Greenock homes built with unsafe Raac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Colin McHendry is among the residents affected. He has lived in his home for seven years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I bought it purely for the view, the view is stunning,&#8221; he told BBC Scotland News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is a brilliant building, I mean the neighbours are fantastic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Most tenants have already been rehoused and their flats are being propped up with struts. But some homeowners, like Colin, remain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As far as I know, all of the ones left now are owners,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said he first noticed grilles going up on doors about a year-and-a-half ago and thought the flats had been raided by police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was then informed by RCH that Raac had been discovered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Every so often there were little bits of feed of information but nothing solid, bits and pieces,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But it&#8217;s just stressful, even more stressful now that we&#8217;ve got the letter saying they&#8217;re definitely going to demolish it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;These buildings have been up here 60 years. I don&#8217;t think they&#8217;re going to fall down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c4g5xgn4x5ko?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin McHendry is among the residents affected. He has lived in his home for seven years. &#8220;I bought it purely for the view, the view is stunning,&#8221; he told BBC Scotland News. &#8220;This is a brilliant building, I mean the neighbours are fantastic.&#8221; Most tenants have already been rehoused and their flats are being propped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[1135,5881,16542,73,16543,7782,7551],"class_list":["post-59882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scotland","tag-built","tag-demolition","tag-greenock","tag-homes","tag-raac","tag-timescale","tag-unsafe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59884,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59882\/revisions\/59884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}