A nationalist bonfire erected close to high rise flats and a children's nursery in north Belfast has been dismantled and removed.
The `anti-internment' pyre in the New Lodge area had been constructed beside the New Lodge flats near Victoria Parade, off North Queen Street.
Mattresses scrawled with messages that read `dump wood here’ had also been placed nearby as material continued to be dumped.
The bonfire had been due to be lit on August 9 to mark the anniversary of the introduction of internment on August 9, 1971.
However, the bonfire, which was described as an "eyesore", had provoked a backlash because of its location close to high rise flats following the Grenfell Tower tragedy last month when at least 80 people were killed and more than 70 injured when a 24-storey tower block caught fire.
In addition, earlier this month in south Belfast, an Eleventh Night bonfire at Sandy Row caused damage to flats nearby.
Earlier this week, around 140 pallets in the New Lodge area were removed from gardens because of fears that they could be set alight.
And yesterday that the bonfire had been dismantled and removed at around 6am.
Sinn Féin councillor JJ Magee said the bonfire material was taken away by community volunteers and housing executive contractors.
"This has been the fourth or fifth lift, all co-ordinated with the statutory agencies and ourselves. I have been involved in them all but one," he said.
Mr Magee said the bonfire was "close to the flats and a nursery, people had stopped bringing their children to the family centre".
"It was an eyesore in the community. It was always going to be lifted".
The Sinn Féin councillor said youths had been hiding the pallets so they could then "intimidate people to hold them in their back gardens" however he added that community representatives had also found pallets hidden in graveyards as well as other places.
"The message to these young people is respect the residents who live around the area. Respect the will of the people who don't want a bonfire. Get involved in summer schemes, the youth club and the festival and enjoy your summer break that way without doing this anti-social activity," he said.
"We will try our best to lift every single thing we can and we need the community's help to identify where they hide these pallets".
Mr Magee also called on local businesses to "help stop this anti-social activity by not giving these youths the pallets and making sure shopping trolleys are well secured".
