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01.11.2022 - 13:17 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Halloween gremlins have stopped work on the demolition of West Lothian’s ghost estate.
No sooner had the excavator’s hydraulic grab moved in to take roof blocks off the shell of a home in Deans South than work was stopped to investigate possible asbestos.
Kerry Mackintosh and her family planned to be on site to watch the house they had fought to leave for 18 years demolished by Beattie Demolition contractors on Monday morning.
Monday was the culmination of a long campaign for a new home in exchange for the former council house she had bought before it was condemned for its porous concrete roof.
But after a weekend of mixed emotion and disturbed sleep there were only more delays. Kerry was getting ready to drive across Livingston to watch her old home in Deans South demolished when the phone call came.
“I’d been excited and psyched up for the demolition. Then I got the phone call and my heart just sank.” she said on Monday.
It took 18 years to win a deal secured when Springfield Properties bought the Deans South from West Lothian Council. Most of the estate’s empty and boarded homes have already been demolished.
The street where Kerry and neighbours, Joe and Isobel Baxter, had also bought their house is one of the last to go
Demolition work stopped as Springfield Properties staff made the call to her about asbestos fears. She arrived to find only part of the roof of the terraced end removed.
The excavator had only got as far as taking down the remaining part of the protest fence surrounding her old home while material from the neighbouring house was taken away for checking.
Kerry continued: “I’m just really fed up and frustrated, I’m not in a good place today, I’d used up holidays to be able to see this.”
She added: “They have to
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