{"id":539556,"date":"2026-04-19T15:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T15:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/539556\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T15:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T15:03:08","slug":"protesters-say-bristol-airports-runway-extension-will-wreck-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/539556\/","title":{"rendered":"Protesters say Bristol Airport&#8217;s runway extension will &#8216;wreck&#8217; common"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a statement, the airport said it had consulted with residents and understood how important the open space was to local people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The proposal would not affect any bridleways or public rights of way, with 99.87% of the common remaining accessible,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As part of our wider proposal, measures include off-site planting, community resources to help maintain open spaces within the local area and a proposal for a dedicated community fund for our nearest communities which would see investment in community facilities and support local projects.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The airport submitted its plans for the expansion in March and North Somerset Council is reviewing the proposal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a statement, the airport said it had consulted with residents and understood how important the open space&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-539556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539556","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=539556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}