{"id":23481,"date":"2019-03-15T17:08:56","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T17:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=23481"},"modified":"2019-03-15T17:08:56","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T17:08:56","slug":"protesters-squatting-to-save-guildford-crescent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/protesters-squatting-to-save-guildford-crescent\/","title":{"rendered":"Protesters &quot;squatting&quot; to save Guildford Crescent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>They&#8217;ve been issued with an eviction notice from the owners earlier this afternoon.<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nA protest group is occupying former popular music venue, Gwidhw, to stop it being demolished.<br \/>\nThe group, called Guildford Peasants, say they want the Council to make Guildford Crescent into listed buildings, protecting them from demolition.<br \/>\nGuildford Crescent is the former home of The Thai House, Madeira Restaurant and Gwdihw.<br \/>\nThe Council approved controversial plans earlier this year to knock down the Crescent to make way for a new business development, likely to be student accommodation.<br \/>\nThe demolition was put on hold for three months after a high profile campaign in January.<br \/>\nThe campaign, called Save Gwdihw and Guildford Crescent, had over 20,000 peoples signatures and more than 2,000 marching through the streets to show their support.<br \/>\nGuildford Peasants say that while they support the main campaign in January, they are not affiliated with it.<br \/>\nIn a statement, the Guildford Peasants describe themselves as an autonomous anarchist group, saying &#8220;These buildings are part of our city&#8217;s history and heritage. To remove them without the consent of the people of Cardiff would be a travesty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Shwmae pawb, The Guildford Peasants \/\/ Gwerin Guildford are a group who have legally occupied the Guildford Crescent to halt any plans for demolition. 1\/6<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SaveGuildfordCrescent?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SaveGuildfordCrescent<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OccupyCrescent?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OccupyCrescent<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 GUILDFORD PEASANTS \u24b6&#x1f3f4;&#xe0067;&#xe0062;&#xe0077;&#xe006c;&#xe0073;&#xe007f; (@GfordPeasants) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GfordPeasants\/status\/1106200175373099008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 14, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The group has been told by the owners that demolition will begin soon.<br \/>\nGuildford Peasants say their aims are &#8220;to halt any plans for demolition in the near future, and to inspire the people of Cardiff that it is possible to take control of their surroundings through direct action.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe landlords, Rapport, have declined to comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;ve been issued with an eviction notice from the owners earlier this afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":183,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,6,2],"tags":[536,537,149],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-23481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-uncategorized","tag-guildford-crescent","tag-gwidhw","tag-protest"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Protesters &quot;squatting&quot; 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