{"id":133942,"date":"2023-10-26T10:40:28","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T09:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=133942"},"modified":"2025-10-28T09:35:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T09:35:26","slug":"doncaster-magistrates-court-shut-down-raac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/building-control-news\/doncaster-magistrates-court-shut-down-raac\/133942\/","title":{"rendered":"Doncaster magistrates court shut down due presence of RAAC"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Doncaster Justice Centre North has faced closure after reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) was found in the building<\/h2>\n<p>The Doncaster magistrates court is just one of nine courthouses across England that have been found to contain RAAC.<\/p>\n<p>According to the courthouse, hearings must be moved to alternative sites whilst assessments are being carried out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/building-control-news\/construction-industry-prepared-answer-questions-raac\/133867\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RAAC was widely used in public buildings<\/a> in England from the 1950s to the 1960s, many of which are now starting to show wear and tear.<\/p>\n<p>The concrete is mainly used for a flat roof structure, which are generally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lboro.ac.uk\/news-events\/news\/2023\/march\/reinforced-autoclaved-aerated--concrete-raac\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">difficult to access, survey, maintain, and replace.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>RAAC has a lifespan of 30 years<\/h3>\n<p>Alongside Doncaster Justice Centre North, the unsafe concrete was also detected in the following buildings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Blackpool County Court<\/li>\n<li>Blackpool Magistrates&#8217; Court<\/li>\n<li>Crewe Magistrates&#8217; and County Court<\/li>\n<li>Queen Elizabeth II Law Courts in Liverpool<\/li>\n<li>Inner London Crown Court.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doncaster Justice Centre North has faced closure after reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) was found in the building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[306],"tags":[811,432,173174],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-133942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-building-control-news","7":"tag-concrete","8":"tag-health-safety","9":"tag-raac"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Doncaster magistrates court shut down due presence of RAAC<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Doncaster Justice Centre North has faced closure after reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) was found in the building\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/building-control-news\/doncaster-magistrates-court-shut-down-raac\/133942\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Doncaster magistrates court shut down due presence of RAAC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Doncaster Justice Centre North has faced closure after reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) was found in the building\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/building-control-news\/doncaster-magistrates-court-shut-down-raac\/133942\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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