{"id":333816,"date":"2025-12-24T20:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T20:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/333816\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T20:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T20:06:08","slug":"sett-to-over-road-damaged-by-burrowing-badgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/333816\/","title":{"rendered":"Sett-to over road damaged by burrowing badgers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northlincs.gov.uk\/news\/outrageous-road-rebuild-blocked-until-july-to-protect-handful-of-badgers-villagers-stuck-with-36-mile-detour\/\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his initial comments, external<\/a> on Tuesday, Waltham said: &#8220;It is frankly outrageous that protections affecting a handful of badgers during mating season mean six months of total inaction on a failing road<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;An entire village is left to live with danger, disruption and the slow erosion of its local services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We respect the importance of protecting wildlife, but the current situation has tipped completely out of balance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">NE said the badger breeding season ran from 1 December to 30 June, during which time sows were pregnant, giving birth or raising cubs underground, making them highly vulnerable to disturbance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, the spokesperson added: &#8220;In exceptional circumstances, we can grant extensions to licences. We will be discussing next steps with North Lincolnshire Council in the new year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Wednesday, Waltham said he looked forward to working with NE in the new year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In his initial comments, external on Tuesday, Waltham said: &#8220;It is frankly outrageous that protections affecting a handful&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-333816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333816","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=333816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}