{"id":322438,"date":"2025-12-18T08:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T08:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/322438\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T08:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T08:06:07","slug":"calls-to-rethink-oxpens-river-bridge-after-contractor-pulls-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/322438\/","title":{"rendered":"Calls to rethink Oxpens River Bridge after contractor pulls out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Alex Hollingsworth, cabinet member for planning and culture, said the bridge would &#8220;provide an attractive walking and cycling route enhancing connectivity between the south and west of the city and the city centre&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Susanna Pressel, a Labour councillor who represents Osney &amp; St Thomas, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s so unfortunate that work has been delayed because a small number of objectors are trying to convince people that Grandpont Nature Reserve will be destroyed by the bridge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In fact, only a small corner of the nature reserve will be affected at all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As soon as the building work is finished, this small area will be replanted with native trees, shrubs, and bulbs, so that it looks better than ever.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But Alex Hollingsworth, cabinet member for planning and culture, said the bridge would &#8220;provide an attractive walking and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-322438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322438","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=322438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}