Monday, April 8, 2013

St. Phillip's church debacle drawn out again

From Canada-

An appeal board has overturned an order by the town of

The town declared the old building a heritage structure to prevent the parish from demolishing the building in order to build a new one.

Portugal Cove-St. Philip's to the local Anglican parish to repair the slowly deteriorating church.

However, the parish, which still has ownership of the building, refuses to make repairs and it has been rotting for three years.

Last year, the town ordered the parish to put the steeple back on the building and do any other necessary repairs, but the order had a number of technical flaws and an appeal board declared it invalid.

More here-

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2013/04/07/nl-st-phillips-church-delay-repairs-407.html

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