{"id":689884,"date":"2026-07-13T20:09:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T20:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/689884\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T20:09:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T20:09:21","slug":"work-begins-on-nationally-significant-golden-valley-cheltenham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/689884\/","title":{"rendered":"Work begins on &#8216;nationally significant&#8217; Golden Valley, Cheltenham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hay said: &#8220;The start of construction is an important moment for Cheltenham and for Gloucestershire and demonstrates our commitment to creating an internationally recognised development that will deliver lasting benefits for the local, regional and national economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is a nationally significant development, but its impact will be felt very locally. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Golden Valley is about creating opportunity for local people through new jobs, affordable homes, school programmes, skills partnerships and initiatives such as the recently launched University of Gloucestershire&#8217;s Golden Valley scholarship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We want more people across the county to see a future for themselves in cyber, technology and innovation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Marsha Quallo-Wright, GCHQ director of technology futures, said she looked forward to working alongside academics and the wider cyber industry to address &#8220;emerging security challenges&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;These collaborations will play an important role in supporting our mission to keep the UK safe,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Phase one is expected to have been completed in early 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hay said: &#8220;The start of construction is an important moment for Cheltenham and for Gloucestershire and demonstrates our&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-689884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689884","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=689884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}