{"id":690552,"date":"2026-07-14T05:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T05:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/690552\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T05:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T05:08:14","slug":"nightmare-cheltenham-road-has-not-been-resurfaced-for-50-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/690552\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Nightmare&#8217; Cheltenham road has not been resurfaced for &#8217;50 years&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Residents of a cul-de-sac are calling for their road to be resurfaced, claiming it has not been done for 50 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Those living on Westdown Gardens in Cheltenham say older people have tripped on cracked pavements and children have fallen off bikes because of potholes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nicole Archer has lived on the street for 15 years and said she was concerned about how uneven it is, adding: &#8220;I do worry when the children are playing out or you see your 90-year-old neighbour walking down the road.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councillor Mark Harris, Gloucestershire County Council&#8217;s cabinet member for highways, said: &#8220;I&#8217;ve made a commitment to come down with an officer and we&#8217;ll look at exactly what&#8217;s going on.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents of a cul-de-sac are calling for their road to be resurfaced, claiming it has not been done&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-690552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690552","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=690552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}