{"id":623801,"date":"2026-04-23T18:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T18:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/623801\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T18:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T18:10:08","slug":"letter-hey-surrey-912-in-fines-wont-stop-illegal-construction-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/623801\/","title":{"rendered":"LETTER: Hey Surrey, $912 in fines won\u2019t stop illegal construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              LETTER: Hey Surrey, $912 in fines won\u2019t stop illegal construction<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 9:00 am Thursday, April 23, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Editor,<\/p>\n<p>In light of your report of the extensive <a href=\"https:\/\/surreynowleader.com\/2026\/04\/20\/surrey-council-files-notice-on-title-on-2-newton-properties-for-illegal-construction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">bylaw infractions of the Newton property<\/a> that has only been fined $912 in the past year given all of its infractions, I\u2019m a little outraged that there is not more being done because in the time this illegal (construction) has occurred, the property has probably generated more than enough money to pay off the mortgage!<\/p>\n<p>WTF? Do better, Surrey.<\/p>\n<p>Annie Marie Shepherd, Surrey <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LETTER: Hey Surrey, $912 in fines won\u2019t stop illegal construction Published 9:00 am Thursday, April 23, 2026 Editor,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-623801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}