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A court-ordered deadline to make The Royal Victoria Hotel in Newport safe expires later
A court order issued on behalf of Telford and Wrekin Council demanding he makes the site safe expires later. Telford Magistrates' Court gave the owners 14 days to fix the scaffolding, which has been up since 2019, and Councillor Peter Scott said there were "no excuses" for leaving it until the last day to start work.
He denied allegations he had let the hotel fall into disrepair on purpose, adding: "No, definitely not, I would not have wished that at all." "Businesses in St Mary's Street are really struggling, they need that exclusion zone lifted and Mr Brock needs to get on with doing the job he's supposed to be doing, [which is] putting the building back to where it should have been, developing it properly, and making it safe.
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