{"id":558377,"date":"2026-04-30T08:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T08:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/558377\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T08:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T08:16:09","slug":"plymouth-homes-evacuated-over-ww2-device-with-400m-cordon-in-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/558377\/","title":{"rendered":"Plymouth homes evacuated over WW2 device with 400m cordon in place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Work ongoing to evacuate more householdspublished at 08:13 BST<\/p>\n<p>08:13 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council says work is &#8220;ongoing&#8221; to evacuate about 1,260 households within the 400m safety cordon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police, supported by volunteers from a number of organisations, are continuing door-to-door visits to provide residents with information and to &#8220;encourage people to leave their homes for their own safety&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since the Youth and Community Centre opened its doors to provide shelter, the council says it has supported more than 50 residents who required additional help &#8211; placing about 25 households in temporary accommodation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The centre remains open.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The front of the Southway Community Hub.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/f1be249f-bdbf-4082-9d52-495fee3c47e4.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Work ongoing to evacuate more householdspublished at 08:13 BST 08:13 BST The council says work is &#8220;ongoing&#8221; to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-558377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558377","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=558377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}