{"id":730319,"date":"2026-08-07T10:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T10:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/730319\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T10:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T10:30:11","slug":"food-giant-cranswick-faces-backlash-in-village-footpath-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/730319\/","title":{"rendered":"Food giant Cranswick faces backlash in village footpath row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Villagers are fighting plans to close part of a public footpath at the request of one of the country&#8217;s biggest food producers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cranswick has applied to the Department for Transport (DfT) to block a section of Nuns Walk, which runs alongside its food processing plant in Preston, near Hull.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The company said the changes would &#8220;reduce disruption&#8221; for residents and ensure &#8220;the safety of pedestrians&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pat Ferguson, who has lived in the village for 44 years, described the move as &#8220;big business stealing our heritage&#8221;, adding: &#8220;It&#8217;s history and we don&#8217;t have much \u2013 it keeps getting eroded.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Part of Nuns Walk runs over a private road belonging to Cranswick, which is used by  HGVs going to and from the site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Hull-based company has applied for a stopping-up order \u2013 a legal process used to close a highway \u2013 to prevent the use of at least 180m (590ft) of the footpath, which would instead be diverted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to Ferguson, the partially cobbled route takes its name from nuns who are said to have walked from the village church to a hospital in what is now east Hull.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Villagers are fighting plans to close part of a public footpath at the request of one of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-730319","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\/730319","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=730319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}