{"id":400571,"date":"2026-01-31T12:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T12:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/400571\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T12:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T12:31:07","slug":"sewage-issue-will-not-affect-beaver-park-plan-says-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/400571\/","title":{"rendered":"Sewage issue will not affect beaver park plan, says council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">No timelines were provided for the work to be completed. Until then, sewage will continue to flow into the brook, leading to what a Thames Water spokesperson described as &#8220;a serious impact on the environment&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The proposal to introduce Eurasian beavers to the country park is being developed in partnership with urban rewilding charity Citizen Zoo. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The organisation, alongside the Ealing Beaver Project, helped deliver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/crmw2yg8xjvo\" class=\"ssrcss-6mgqu7-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">London&#8217;s first openly accessible urban beaver population<\/a>, launched in Ealing in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council and its partners said they were working to ensure the environment was safe and suitable for the animals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Perry said introducing the species to South Norwood &#8220;would benefit local wildlife and be a massive boost for the borough&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Elliot Newton, director of rewilding at Citizen Zoo, said the site had &#8220;huge potential&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No timelines were provided for the work to be completed. Until then, sewage will continue to flow into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-400571","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\/400571","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=400571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}