{"id":211118,"date":"2025-10-19T14:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T14:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/211118\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T14:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T14:07:07","slug":"flood-defence-work-costing-65m-set-to-begin-in-tamworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/211118\/","title":{"rendered":"Flood defence work costing \u00a365m set to begin in Tamworth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Flood defence work costing \u00a365.5m is set to begin later this year in Staffordshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It will include drilling boreholes at 86 locations across Tamworth to discover what materials are in the ground and the types of flood defences needed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The project is expected to start in November or December and will last six months to implement a mix of new defences and improve current flood walls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Will Groves from the Environment Agency said that the current defences were not high enough and needed to be raised. Footpaths on top of flood defences will be closed during the work and traffic management on Lichfield Road will be in place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flood defence work costing \u00a365.5m is set to begin later this year in Staffordshire. It will include drilling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-211118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}