Sentence examples for substantial demolition from inspiring English sources

The Corporation of London are on their side, as are English Heritage, who formerly opposed substantial demolition.

The wooden castle was built in the north-east corner of the town, taking advantage of the old Anglo-Saxon ramparts, with the motte close to the river overlooking the ford, and required substantial demolition work to make room for the new motte-and-bailey structure.

A second report, in 1979, concluded that 40,000 homes needed "substantial improvement" or demolition, with 26,000 more likely to be substandard within five years.

The decrease in blood lead level from 1990 to 2000 is associated with trends in housing demolition and substantial rehabilitation, including lead paint abatement (Jacobs and Nevin 2006).

These estimates do not include the potentially substantial volume of construction and demolition waste likely to be generated by such an event due to heavy tephra fall, and associated building and infrastructure damage, and demolition.

However, there was only a short period of demolition data and a substantial amount of properties with unknown ages.

Unlike other schemes to "densify" or "upgrade" or "rebuild" council-owned estates in London that have proceeded in the face of fierce opposition and sometimes gone horribly wrong, this one envisages very little demolition of existing homes and enjoys substantial support from estate residents.

More substantial hoarding was erected around the site and demolition firm Connell Brothers Limited began removing the spikes with oxyacetylene cutting equipment.

"The finding of overriding consideration was not supported by substantial evidence," wrote Weiner, "and the granting of the demolition permit by Woodside to Jobs was an abuse of discretion".

Clarke called it a "poorly conceived scheme" involving "too much demolition", which will cause "unnecessary blight" after a "substantial loss of housing stock".

Officials say substantial sums of money could have been saved by allowing the demolition of buildings without performing expensive asbestos abatement.