{"id":378691,"date":"2026-01-19T17:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/378691\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T17:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T17:00:12","slug":"council-offers-sewage-upgrades-in-buxton-to-lower-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/378691\/","title":{"rendered":"Council offers sewage upgrades in Buxton to lower pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It added property owners must register their interest by 28 February to qualify for the scheme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Godfrey Claff, executive councillor for planning, said the &#8220;state-of-the-art upgrades&#8221; would improve the water quality of rivers and streams in the borough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The level of phosphates in the River Wye has been holding up development, particularly of much-needed housing in the Buxton and Dove Holes area, so this will help unlock the blocks and enable us to progress planning applications whilst ensuring they don&#8217;t adversely affect protected habitats,&#8221; Claff added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Labour-run council said it was writing to property owners who were likely to be eligible. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jean Todd, executive councillor for climate change and environment, added: &#8220;This scheme directly addresses pollution at the source by supporting households and businesses with otherwise potentially expensive but essential upgrades to their drainage systems.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It added property owners must register their interest by 28 February to qualify for the scheme. Godfrey Claff,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-378691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378691","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=378691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}