{"id":310926,"date":"2025-12-11T23:21:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T23:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/310926\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T23:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T23:21:12","slug":"parnham-park-housing-plan-threatens-blonde-badgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/310926\/","title":{"rendered":"Parnham Park housing plan &#8216;threatens blonde badgers&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said the estate&#8217;s application contained no otter survey, on the assumption that there was no local population, even though Parnham&#8217;s website encourages visitors to &#8220;spot otter trails&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The meadow&#8217;s albino badgers were also ignored in the documents, the group said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Protected trees and valuable lichen were threatened in the Grade II listed deer park, it added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a statement, DNHI said: &#8220;Parnham&#8217;s entire approach towards this development&#8230; prioritises the partial restoration of a private estate over and above the wishes of the local community, destroying an irreplaceable natural habitat in the process.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It said the estate&#8217;s application contained no otter survey, on the assumption that there was no local population,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-310926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310926","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=310926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}