{"id":683436,"date":"2026-07-10T02:07:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T02:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/683436\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T02:07:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T02:07:34","slug":"leckhampton-treehouse-built-to-help-boys-anxiety-demolished-over-insurance-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/683436\/","title":{"rendered":"Leckhampton treehouse built to help boy&#8217;s anxiety demolished over insurance issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A treehouse built by a dad and his children, and loved by other families in the area, has been demolished because it does not have insurance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pete, from Leckhampton, Cheltenham, built the treehouse in Burrow&#8217;s Field to help his nine-year-old son Cooper with his anxiety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But neither Cheltenham Borough Council or Leckhampton with Warden Hill Parish Council was able to secure public liability insurance for the structure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councillor Steve Harvey, borough council cabinet member for parks, gardens and green open space, said: &#8220;Without appropriate insurance cover, the treehouse can&#8217;t be permitted to remain as there is a duty of care to protect the safety of everyone who uses public open spaces.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A treehouse built by a dad and his children, and loved by other families in the area, has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-683436","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\/683436","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=683436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}