{"id":719441,"date":"2026-07-30T17:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T17:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/719441\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T17:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T17:16:15","slug":"gwaelod-y-garth-residents-evacuated-after-flood-strikes-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/719441\/","title":{"rendered":"Gwaelod-y-Garth residents evacuated after flood strikes village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Residents of a village on the outskirts of Cardiff have been evacuated after a flood on Thursday afternoon<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Roads have been shut in Gwaelod-y-Garth, with reports of water up to 5ft (1.5m) deep in some homes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Emergency services are at the scene and people have been advised to avoid the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Breedon Group confirmed there had been an &#8220;incident in its quarry&#8221; this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our teams are working closely with the relevant authorities while engaging with the local community as we respond to the situation,&#8221; the company said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents of a village on the outskirts of Cardiff have been evacuated after a flood on Thursday afternoon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-719441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719441","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=719441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}