{"id":733310,"date":"2026-08-10T08:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T08:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/733310\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T08:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T08:46:09","slug":"woman-questions-hosepipe-ban-while-leak-not-fixed-in-braintree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/733310\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman questions hosepipe ban while leak not fixed in Braintree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A woman has criticised Anglian Water for imposing a hosepipe ban while not fixing a water leak that she had reported &#8220;weeks ago&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Linda Kirby, a receptionist at Polly&#8217;s Field Village in Deanery Hill in Braintree, Essex, said in June she reported a leak that tickles down Church Lane and forms a puddle next to Chantry Close.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added a hosepipe ban amid a drought while the leak remained made her &#8220;very annoyed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Anglian Water said its teams were &#8220;working hard&#8221; through the hot weather to &#8220;prioritise repairs that are having the greatest impact on customers&#8217; water supplies&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kirby, who lives in Halstead, Essex, said she goes past the leak every time she drives to work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;Why are we paying all of this money when there is water being wasted down a drain?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It started as a small trickle and over the weeks it has got bigger &#8211; they need to get their act together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Residents who live next to the leak have also expressed their disappointment with the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman has criticised Anglian Water for imposing a hosepipe ban while not fixing a water leak that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-733310","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\/733310","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=733310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}