Firefighters have attended blaze at the former St Peter’s Secondary School in Derry within the last hour.
Firefighters at the latest blaze at the former St Peter’s Secondary School.
While the fire – which broke out after 5.00pm – is understood to be minor it will no doubt lead to renewed calls for the immediate demolishment of the building located on the outskirts of Creggan.
The school has remained vacant since it closed its doors for the final time at the end of June. Since then it has become a regular target for arsonists.
The most serious of the incident occurred on 4 September when firefighters carried out a thorough search of the premises when the blaze was at its height after been wrongly-informed a number of young people were trapped in the building.
Following calls for the building to be demolished, a notice under article 66 of the Pollution Control and Local Government (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 was served by Derry City Council on its owners.
The notice requires them to either secure the site or alternatively to demolish it.
The latest incident comes on the same day the Department of Environment served an Urgent Works Notice on the owner of a listed building on Academy Road which was badly damaged in a blaze only hours after as the major fire at the former Creggan school in September.
Under the terms of the Notice, the owner has seven days to secure the building before the DOE steps in to carry out the necessary work. The DOE would then seek the cost of the work form the owner.
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