{"id":366148,"date":"2026-01-12T13:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T13:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/366148\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T13:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T13:17:07","slug":"water-filled-sinkhole-appears-on-residential-road-in-harpenden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/366148\/","title":{"rendered":"Water-filled sinkhole appears on residential road in Harpenden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A sinkhole filled with water has appeared on a residential road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A resident of Park Lane North in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, said they reported the hole to emergency services earlier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When speaking to the BBC, a workman estimated the hole was about 16.4ft (5m) wide and 13.12ft (4m) deep.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hertfordshire Constabulary has advised people to avoid the area as Park Avenue North and connecting road Park Avenue South were closed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A sinkhole filled with water has appeared on a residential road. A resident of Park Lane North in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-366148","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\/366148","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=366148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}