{"id":251974,"date":"2026-01-26T04:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T04:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/251974\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T04:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T04:36:08","slug":"tauranga-council-cordons-off-yatton-park-after-large-pine-tree-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/251974\/","title":{"rendered":"Tauranga council cordons off Yatton Park after large pine tree falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">They said locals were worried \u201cthis could happen to their properties\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Yatton Park in Tauranga has been closed off after due to a fallen tree. Photo \/ Samantha Motion\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Yatton Park in Tauranga has been closed off after due to a fallen tree. Photo \/ Samantha Motion<\/p>\n<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">Tauranga City Council said fencing has been installed, closing some of Yatton Park where trees have fallen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cMid-afternoon on Sunday a tree came down in Yatton Park,\u201d council said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe heavy rain last week, combined with Sunday\u2019s strong winds likely contributed to this<\/p>\n<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe have fenced off the fallen tree to ensure public safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"A 60m pine tree has been uprooted in Yatton Park, Tauranga. Photo \/ Samantha Motion\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>A 60m pine tree has been uprooted in Yatton Park, Tauranga. Photo \/ Samantha Motion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They said locals were worried \u201cthis could happen to their properties\u201d. Yatton Park in Tauranga has been closed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,11730,10748,5201,14902,5205,6097,40147,15248,3242,111,43,139,69,6662,8143,48314,14777,10809,30638,1227,15981,146208],"class_list":["post-251974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-afternoon","tag-came","tag-closed","tag-cordons","tag-council","tag-down","tag-estimated","tag-falls","tag-large","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-off","tag-park","tag-pine","tag-section","tag-sunday","tag-tall","tag-tauranga","tag-tree","tag-yatton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}