{"id":417891,"date":"2026-02-10T11:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T11:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/417891\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T11:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T11:16:08","slug":"buckingham-hill-pit-wildlife-threatened-by-thurrock-quarry-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/417891\/","title":{"rendered":"Buckingham Hill Pit wildlife &#8216;threatened&#8217; by Thurrock quarry plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Infilling a former quarry would destroy a &#8220;precious habitat&#8221; home to rare insects, a charity warned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Buckingham Hill Pit, near Stanford-le-Hope in Essex, was reclaimed by nature after quarrying stopped in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, sand could be imported into it if plans to resume quarrying of sand at a nearby site are approved by Thurrock Council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">To mitigate the impact, a new &#8220;eco park&#8221; has been proposed by the local authority to rehouse affected species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Infilling a former quarry would destroy a &#8220;precious habitat&#8221; home to rare insects, a charity warned. Buckingham Hill&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-417891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417891","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=417891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}