{"id":639830,"date":"2025-12-18T07:51:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T07:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/639830\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T07:51:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T07:51:48","slug":"calls-to-rethink-oxpens-river-bridge-after-contractor-pulls-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/639830\/","title":{"rendered":"Calls to rethink Oxpens River Bridge after contractor pulls out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Alex Hollingsworth, cabinet member for planning and culture, said the bridge would &#8220;provide an attractive walking and cycling route enhancing connectivity between the south and west of the city and the city centre&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Susanna Pressel, a Labour councillor who represents Osney &amp; St Thomas, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s so unfortunate that work has been delayed because a small number of objectors are trying to convince people that Grandpont Nature Reserve will be destroyed by the bridge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In fact, only a small corner of the nature reserve will be affected at all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As soon as the building work is finished, this small area will be replanted with native trees, shrubs, and bulbs, so that it looks better than ever.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But Alex Hollingsworth, cabinet member for planning and culture, said the bridge would &#8220;provide an attractive walking and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-639830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115739488639884033","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639830","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=639830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}