{"id":537613,"date":"2026-04-18T10:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T10:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/537613\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T10:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T10:38:08","slug":"fly-tipping-at-old-felsted-station-is-dubbed-an-abhorrent-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/537613\/","title":{"rendered":"Fly-tipping at old Felsted station is dubbed an &#8216;abhorrent mess&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kelly said the previous renovation work had made the building look &#8220;great&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Fly-tipping is a blight on the Flitch Way and surrounding areas. No one seems bothered, and it is a big issue at the moment,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than 30 residents posted online about fly-tipping around the former station, which closed in 1964.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One resident said: &#8220;It is a total disgrace that people are so lazy to spoil a site like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Another cyclist added: &#8220;I rode past this, and it was a complete eyesore, and it is abhorrent to see this mess.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is what was, and could still be, a beautiful historic building. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It could be turned into a cafe or restaurant, a bit like Rayne station has just down the line.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kelly said the previous renovation work had made the building look &#8220;great&#8221;. &#8220;Fly-tipping is a blight on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-537613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537613","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=537613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}