{"id":704673,"date":"2026-07-22T05:17:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T05:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/704673\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T05:17:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T05:17:13","slug":"sheffield-pub-landlord-fears-for-trade-after-wildfire-road-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/704673\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield pub landlord fears for trade after wildfire road closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A pub landlord has said he may have to lay staff off after a road used by passing trade was closed due to a wildfire nearby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Steve Marsh, owner of The Dog &amp; Partridge Inn in Flouch, said &#8220;there is no sense&#8221; in keeping the westbound carriageway of the A628 Woodhead Pass closed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The road linking South Yorkshire to Greater Manchester was closed on Thursday after a car crash caused a moorland blaze, and remains partially shut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson for National Highways said: &#8220;We are looking to install signage at Flouch Roundabout confirming The Dog &amp; Partridge Inn is open for business as usual and to alter the present road closure to enable safe access in both directions to the pub.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Marsh said the car fire, about one mile (1.6km) from his pub, was extinguished and believes the closure is still in place due to another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/clyj23dk9v5o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">major moorland fire<\/a> about 10 miles (16km) away at Tintwistle Moor, near Glossop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said he had had to send staff home and also lost workers due to roadworks nearby in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Marsh said he was worried about the impact of further road closures for bridge repairs during two weekends in August at the pub&#8217;s &#8220;busiest&#8221; time, and said he wanted National Highways to look at their schedule and consider proceeding with the work on weekdays. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pub landlord has said he may have to lay staff off after a road used by passing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-704673","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\/704673","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=704673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}