{"id":28504,"date":"2019-02-18T13:21:36","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T13:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=28504"},"modified":"2019-02-18T13:28:46","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T13:28:46","slug":"a-royal-mail-post-box-placed-in-middle-of-driveway-in-moseley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/18\/a-royal-mail-post-box-placed-in-middle-of-driveway-in-moseley\/","title":{"rendered":"A Royal Mail post box placed in middle of driveway in Moseley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A house in Moseley, South Birmingham which is less than a stones throw away from a post box, because it is plonked in its newly widened driveway. Council investigating &#8216;unauthorised works&#8217; after residents stumped over siting of box on the corner of Oxford Road and School Road in Moseley.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And there won&#8217;t be many deliveries to the home as the red postbox blocks entry through the new formed iron gates, at the corner of Oxford Road and School Road.<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for Birmingham City Council said, \u201cAlleged unauthorised works have recently been brought to our attention which are currently subject to an enforcement investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDiscussions are taking place between council officers and the home owner in an attempt to bring this matter to a satisfactory conclusion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The postbox topic has been widely debated by residents on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Moseley councillor, Kerry Jenkins\u00a0requested planning officers had been to visit the property about works outside the house, including the block paving.<\/p>\n<p>She said: \u201cThe residents of Moseley are passionate about their neighbourhood. They love the characteristics, the vibe and do not want to see it ruined.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m aware that planning enforcement are dealing with the issue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She added the householder had told &#8220;planning enforcement that he\u2019s applied to Royal Mail to get the postbox relocated and I\u2019m sure there\u2019s a huge cost to that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The owner of the home could not be contacted for a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A house in Moseley, South Birmingham which is less than a stones throw away from a post box, because it is plonked in its newly widened driveway. Council investigating &#8216;unauthorised works&#8217; after residents stumped over siting of box on the corner of Oxford Road and School Road in Moseley. And there won&#8217;t be many deliveries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,37,3,112],"tags":[264,772,1970,1435,1969],"class_list":["post-28504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-local-news","category-news","category-top-stories","tag-birmingham","tag-birmingham-city-council","tag-kerry-jenkins","tag-moseley","tag-royal-mail-post-box"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}