{"id":300089,"date":"2026-02-24T17:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/300089\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T17:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:49:07","slug":"mp-presents-petition-on-start-bay-coastal-erosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/300089\/","title":{"rendered":"MP presents petition on Start Bay coastal erosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Voaden said: &#8220;In just over two weeks, over 39,000 people have signed and I want to thank the businesses and residents who went above and beyond to spread this petition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"> &#8220;The support demonstrates not only the strength of feeling about this issue but how worried many are that the government won&#8217;t act. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Which way they decide will signal how they plan to deal with coastal erosion more broadly and I am sure many communities beyond Start Bay will be watching the decision closely.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The wording of the petition &#8220;urges the government to support coastal communities affected by coastal erosion in Start Bay, including the villages of Torcross, Beesands and Hallsands, in the short and long term&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Environment Agency commented previously: &#8220;We are working closely with local authorities to manage the sea defences at Torcross and support recovery of the community.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Voaden said: &#8220;In just over two weeks, over 39,000 people have signed and I want to thank the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":["post-300089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300089","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=300089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}