{"id":62423,"date":"2025-08-12T20:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T20:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/62423\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T20:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T20:35:07","slug":"repairs-to-greatham-creeks-poor-flood-defences-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/62423\/","title":{"rendered":"Repairs to Greatham Creek&#8217;s &#8216;poor&#8217; flood defences planned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hartlepool MP Jonathan Brash stressed the importance of the scheme and lobbied ministers over the issue in the <a href=\"https:\/\/hansard.parliament.uk\/Commons\/2025-03-20\/debates\/5AF9CA81-1B89-4018-87A5-1139490C3F56\/FloodDefencesHartlepool\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">House of Commons in March, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said while the defences had been maintained over the years, their age meant they could fail, putting &#8220;communities at severe risk&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a letter to Secretary of State for Environment Steve Reed, he said: &#8220;Without dedicated funding for the repair and future-proofing of the Greatham Creek flood defences, we risk undermining broader flood mitigation efforts in the area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The government said it was investing \u00a32.65bn over two years to improve flood resilience.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A decision is expected to be made on the proposals by Hartlepool Borough Council in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hartlepool MP Jonathan Brash stressed the importance of the scheme and lobbied ministers over the issue in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-62423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62423","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=62423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}