Subject: Unable to delete specific projects (Permission Denied) despite having Owner access

Hello everyone,

I am looking for some help cleaning up my Google Cloud resources. I have a few projects that are not associated with an Organization, and I am running into issues deleting two of them.

I have successfully deleted several other projects linked to folders, but these two specific projects consistently return a “Permission Denied” error in the console.

Here is what I have checked so far:

  • I verified my IAM permissions to ensure I have the necessary roles.
  • I am logged in with the account that owns the projects.
  • I attempted to use the request access flow, which emails the owner—only to confirm that the owner is indeed my account, yet I am still being denied access.

Since I have successfully deleted other projects in the same environment, I am confused why these two are throwing errors. Has anyone encountered this “strangler” project issue before, or is there a specific step I might be missing to force the deletion of these orphaned projects?

Any advice or workarounds would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

P.S Sorry if I posted in the wrong place I’m not going to act like I’m a expert. I’m a hands on learner and it takes me a while.

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