{"id":356380,"date":"2026-01-07T04:20:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T04:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/356380\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T04:20:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T04:20:18","slug":"canterburys-victorian-lamp-posts-to-be-removed-campaigners-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/356380\/","title":{"rendered":"Canterbury&#8217;s Victorian lamp-posts to be removed, campaigners say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Campaigners say they are fighting to save historic Victorian lamp-posts in Canterbury which are under threat at being removed by a council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reform-led Kent County Council is planning to replace the structures with &#8220;generic steel poles&#8221; fitted with heritage-style embellishments, The Canterbury Society says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Society president Ptolemy Dean said the possible replacement lamp-posts were &#8220;grotesque, misformed, and misshapen and hideous looking things&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council says &#8220;proposed works&#8221; had not yet started, but recent safety inspections showed serious structural issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Campaigners say they are fighting to save historic Victorian lamp-posts in Canterbury which are under threat at being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-356380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356380","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=356380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}