A DANGEROUS empty building in Cavendish Square has finally been demolished.

Following a report in the Advertiser last week of concerns about children running along the roof of the former doctors' surgery in Priory Road, the building was pulled down on Monday.

Another dangerous building, the former Cock Robin pub, remains, but Conservat-ive Party activist for Parks Graham Cherry said that the area has been fenced off to keep children out.

"The doctors' surgery has been demolished," Mr Cherry said. "It was a problem."

The Advertiser reported on Thursday that gangs of children were risking their lives by leaping across 40ft gaps between buildings as well as exploring the derelict sites. Police appealed for parents to make their youngsters aware of the dangers of the former Cock Robin pub in Cavendish Square and the old surgery.

The youngsters, some as young as 11, jump from the roof of the Co-op to the pub.

Mr Cherry said the area around the pub had now been fenced off and police in the area would try to stop youngsters from getting in.

He said the former pub could not be pulled down until the Co-op vacated the rest of the building.

The long-awaited Caven-dish Square redevelopment is expected to kick off next month.

"We cannot demolish it until the major work starts," Mr Cherry said. "We are watching it very carefully.

"We are doing what we can to keep it safe.

"If the supermarket was empty we could knock the lot down, but we cannot because people rely on it.

"The Cavendish Square work is going to get underway at the end of the month."

Swindon Labour councillor Steve Allsopp earlier accused the council of dragging its feet over demolishing the old surgery.

"The surgery has been boarded up for a few months, but recently some of the boards have been pulled off and youngsters have been getting inside," Coun Allsopp (Lab, Parks) said last week.

"I have noticed a few tiles going missing and it's only a matter of time before the building becomes more of a magnet for anti-social behaviour, particularly with the weather improving.

"It's particularly worrying for the people living at the rear of the surgery, many of whom are elderly."