{"id":405420,"date":"2026-02-03T10:17:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T10:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/405420\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T10:17:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T10:17:19","slug":"new-5m-barnwood-gp-surgery-to-be-built-in-gloucester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/405420\/","title":{"rendered":"New \u00a35m Barnwood GP surgery to be built in Gloucester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mayor of Gloucester Ashley Bowkett, who is also a county councillor for Barnwood and Hucclecote, spoke strongly in favour of the proposals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the current surgery has been under a lot of pressure for a long time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bowkett also said that this was &#8220;quite simply a long overdue improvement to health infrastructure for the east of Gloucester&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Conservative councillor Stephen Davies (Hardwicke and Severn) said work had been done to improve the plans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;Having taken feedback on the design of the building and the layout and parking, I think some credit should be given to officers on the work done on that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The building was used by various council services in 2022 before closing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor of Gloucester Ashley Bowkett, who is also a county councillor for Barnwood and Hucclecote, spoke strongly in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-405420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405420","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=405420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}