{"id":783066,"date":"2026-09-26T09:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T09:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/783066\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T09:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T09:10:09","slug":"watch-universal-uk-resort-begins-demolishing-bedfordshire-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/783066\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Universal UK Resort begins demolishing Bedfordshire homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bulldozers have moved in and have begun demolishing houses that lie in the way of what will be Universal&#8217;s new UK theme park in Bedfordshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Contractors plan to raze a terrace of 12 properties in Manor Road, Kempston Hardwick, and have closed the road until 28 November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The theme park developer said it remained &#8220;committed to being a good neighbour&#8221; during the project, which is being built over 476 acres (193ha).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">About 8.5 million people are expected to visit the \u00a35bn Universal UK Resort each year when it opens in 2031. Other properties are being demolished as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Follow Beds, Herts and Bucks news on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/curation\/p0cjf099\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Sounds<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BBCBedsHertsBucks\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook, external<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bbc3cr\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram, external<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BBC3cr\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow\">X, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bulldozers have moved in and have begun demolishing houses that lie in the way of what will be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":783067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-783066","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\/783066","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=783066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}