{"id":706666,"date":"2026-07-23T07:20:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T07:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/706666\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T07:20:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T07:20:49","slug":"wolsingham-waste-site-shut-by-environment-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/706666\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolsingham waste site shut by Environment Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Environment Agency (EA) has closed down a waste site after reports of illegal dumping in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A court order is now in place stopping anyone from importing waste on to land at Park Head Plantation in Wolsingham, inside the North Pennines AONB.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The EA said previous notices requiring the dumping to stop and the waste to be cleared were ignored.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Area environment manager Gary Wallace said so-called waste crime &#8220;scars communities and the environment&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Environment Agency (EA) has closed down a waste site after reports of illegal dumping in an Area&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-706666","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\/706666","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=706666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}