{"id":448609,"date":"2026-02-27T14:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/448609\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T14:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:12:07","slug":"cockermouth-development-to-be-reviewed-after-red-squirrel-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/448609\/","title":{"rendered":"Cockermouth development to be reviewed after red squirrel survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Plans for houses at a former fire station will go back before councillors after an independent report found evidence of red squirrels there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The development, at the site on Station Road in Cockermouth, was approved in 2023 but was deferred by Cumberland Council after it was discovered the application was submitted with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-cumbria-68511368\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">old ecological reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council&#8217;s planning committee has now voted to accept findings of an updated red squirrel survey, which found two nests nearby and recommended keeping trees there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wildlife campaigner Gabrielle Sanders said she hoped the council would now consider the development&#8217;s &#8220;impact on the protected and endangered red squirrels&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plans for houses at a former fire station will go back before councillors after an independent report found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-448609","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\/448609","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=448609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}