CAMPAIGNERS who tried to save an historic school from demolition have been angered to see items from the building smashed up or for sale on the internet.

Hundreds of people signed a petition against demolition of the former Tudhoe Grange School, on Durham Road, Spennymoor, which closed in 2012 when it merged with Spennymoor Comprehensive and transferred to Whitworth Park School and Sixth Form College, which was developed on the Spennymoor site.

They had hoped the 1912 red brick building, which found small screen fame as a set and production base for BBC police drama George Gently, could be retained and redeveloped.

But Spennymoor Learning Community Trust and Durham County Council said the site needed to be cleared so it can be sold to generate cash for local education.

Last week heartbroken campaigners, including many former pupils, saw the landmark building razed to the ground.

They were then shocked to see features including the wooden front doors and a piano smashed among the rubble.

Other items such as teak worktops, oak cupboards, 1950s wall maps and George Gently props have also been spotted for sale online.

Campaigner Claire Coverdale said: People have had to accept we did our best but couldnt save the building, what rubs salt in the wound is how indiscriminate and wasteful it has been.

The utter waste is shocking, stone arches and chimney pots should surely have been salvaged, and things people care about such as sports trophies werent taken to Whitworth Park but thrown in a skip which is really upsetting.

The place has been pulled down around these beautiful, valuable items that people have dear memories of.

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DECATUR It can start with something as simple as chipped paint, some fallen siding.

Moisture invades the weak spots, bringing with it the scourge of ants and termites. The roof begins to rot. The project becomes too overwhelming and expensive for the property owner, who may have already abandoned the house.

This is how some properties wind up on the city's demolition list, which currently numbers 137 properties.

The demolitions pose several problems. They're expensive, with the city calculating average demolition cost at $16,278. Vacant, dilapidated structures hurt neighborhoods and attract crime, while empty lots can lead to problems with weeds and illegal dumping. And they lower the community's property values, which is bad for every government body that depends on property taxes and every taxpayer who might have to pay higher rates as a result.

Catching those problems before they fester is part of the mission of the city's Neighborhood Inspections Division, which has undergone significant changes in the past year.

My argument was, unless it's a fire, explosion or implosion, every demo (demolition) case should have started out as a housing case, said Wendy Morthland, the city's corporation counsel. We should have caught that as early as possible to try and prevent it from being a demo case, because it's now costing us so much for demos. So, how do we back that train all the way up?

Morthland took charge of the division in June, when the Decatur City Council informally approved its move under the city's legal department. Since then, she said the department meets weekly to brainstorm issues related to code enforcement.

Several council members expressed concerns about the move because the legal department also prosecutes violations through the city's administrative court. At the time, former City Manager Ryan McCrady said he would report back on how it was working after six months. The council is slated for a study session to review the administrative court and hear residents' concerns in the coming weeks.

Neighborhood Inspections administrator Susan Kretsinger said the move has helped her and the four neighborhood standards officers feel less isolated. The division previously operated as part of development services, which also includes building inspections and neighborhood outreach.

It's the fact that (the inspectors) feel they have valuable input now, and that's really increased their productivity and their willingness to go the extra step, she said. We were like an island.

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Demolition crews were called off on Saturday due to hazardous weather conditions from the latest winter storm.

Officials say crews planned to close Battlefield Road at 65 in order to demolish the bridge.

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Springfield, Greene County

Due to extreme weather conditions and the safety of the traveling public and contractor crews, plans to CLOSE Battlefield Road at Route 65 and divert Route 65 traffic over the ramps at the interchange HAS BEEN POSTPONED!

Work to demolish the south half of the Battlefield Road bridge over Route 65 has been rescheduled for the weekend of March 8-9. Project information with live camera view

Prime Contractor: Hartman and Company, Inc., Springfield

Completion Date: September 2015

Total Project Cost: $12.5 million.

Partnership Project: City of Springfield, Greene County, Ozarks Transportation Organization, Jack Henry & Associates, Justice Jewelers and McLean Enterprises, Inc. RATE OUR WORK ZONE

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SOME personnel from the Davao City Demolition Unit (CDU) are currently under investigation for stealing confiscated items during the demolition operations.

Speaking during the I-Speak Media Forum on Thursday at the Davao City Hall, CDU chief retired colonel Yusop Jimlani said they initially investigated four personnel from their recent demolition of shoe stalls who are violators of one-third two-third policy.

"We are now conducting investigation because we do not want to tolerate these things. The mayor does not like to tolerate these things to happen," Jimlani said.

He said that once the said personnel will be proven of stealing the items, "their contracts will expire immediately."

Meanwhile, Jimlani said they have conducted their demolition operation at Bankerohan.

"Gitudluan man gud nato ni ug binulanay ang tawo just to protect themselves. Ngayon, yung mga ganun, normal na yun sa amin kasi we did not went there to just say that we will be confiscating their goods talagang agawan yan, yung mga fruit vendors especially kung kuhaon nimo ilang baligya iyabo na nila sa dalan (Demolition team members expect a tug-of-war with the vendors over their stalls. If you try to grab their stalls, they will spill their goods on the ground)," he said in response to complaints that they have been harassing the vendors during the said operations.

Jimlani said they have been informing the people several times already and they are still not following the order.

"Asa man ka makakita'g demolition na gina-announce (Where can you see a demolition that is being announced) but nobody believes us and they will still be there and yet we have accommodated them at the night market and that is even an order of the City Mayor himself," he added.

The said demolition operation happened last Friday, February 20.

Published in the Sun.Star Davao newspaper on February 28, 2015.

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Newark Mayor Jeff Hall called the Moving Ohio Forward demolition grant program a godsend.

Over the past 2 1/2 years, Hall has used the money to demolish more than 50 abandoned and dilapidated buildings in the city.

It didnt solve Newarks problem. There are still plenty of old, blighted buildings left to deal with in a city whose first building boom occurred in the mid-1800s. And, as of December, the funding had dried up. So whats next?

In many ways, its back to the drawing board, said Hall, who is relying on an undersized property maintenance department with one full-time inspector to put pressure on negligent property owners and issue liens if necessary.

But now there is a little momentum.

One dilapidated property makes all of the others look worse, Hall said. But you take it down and, all of a sudden, the street looks a little better. The neighbor thinks, Finally, Ill fix my porch. We have private-sector involvement now looking at buying multiple houses on a street and fixing them up. It keeps going on even without the (grant) dollars.

The Ohio attorney generals office was awarded $93 million in 2012 in a national settlement against five of the countrys largest predatory lenders whose unethical practices helped spark an epidemic of foreclosures and, ultimately, abandoned homes.

From that, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine set aside $75 million for the creation of the grant program.

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