{"id":279020,"date":"2025-07-21T04:09:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T04:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/279020\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T04:09:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T04:09:17","slug":"and-finally-a-stark-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/279020\/","title":{"rendered":"And finally&#8230; a Stark warning\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"article-standfirst\">Hollywood actor and Sheffield native Sean Bean has waded into a debate about the council\u2019s shortlisted proposals for 1,700 homes on Green Belt land in the Handsworth area where he grew up.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"article-standfirst\">Sheffield City Council was tasked with finding space for 3,500 more homes to add to its Local Plan, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.placeyorkshire.co.uk\/sheffield-releases-short-list-of-green-belt-land-for-development\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">back in April it released its shortlist of possible options.<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"article-standfirst\">The council believes it has exhausted its brownfield options.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"article-standfirst\">Addressing the council via a letter, the actor, famous for his portrayal of Ned Stark in Game of Thrones, expressed concern that the proposals unfairly discriminate against working-class communities.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"article-standfirst\">He wrote: \u201cIt seems like this working-class community and its surrounding areas has been specifically targeted, whilst other more affluent, genteel areas on the other side of Sheffield have escaped lightly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hollywood actor and Sheffield native Sean Bean has waded into a debate about the council\u2019s shortlisted proposals for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-279020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114889265415594172","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}