{"id":19310,"date":"2018-02-16T14:31:01","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T14:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=19310"},"modified":"2018-02-16T15:42:53","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T15:42:53","slug":"rhiwbina-businesses-have-lost-money-after-gas-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/rhiwbina-businesses-have-lost-money-after-gas-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhiwbina businesses &#8216;have lost money&#8217; after gas works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Businesses in Rhiwbina claim they have lost significant money after gas works closed the main road for three weeks.<\/strong> <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Heol-y-Deri has now reopened after what\u00a0Wales &amp; West Utilities call &#8220;essential work&#8221; to replace 100-year-old gas pipes.<\/p>\n<p>Butcher Ray Hill says the closure severely damaged profits because fewer people came to his shop, forcing him to reduce opening hours.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s disrupted trade a lot with customers not being able to get here,&#8221; Mr Hill said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Sandra Thomas, who is a volunteer at the charity shop Tenovus Cancer Care, said she had seen a drop in donations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot of people have stopped popping in now because the road has been closed and I really hope they come back now it is back open.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Conservative Councillor for Rhiwbina, Adrian Robson said he and his fellow local councillors had done all they could to make sure businesses were affected as little as possible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have been putting information out on social media and have been in constant contact with Wales &amp; West,&#8221; Cllr Robson said.<\/p>\n<p>Councillor Robson said he had met residents on Pantmawr Road to listen to their concerns.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately it is work that has to be done and there is no other option,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The next phase of repair works begins on Saturday, 17 February on Pantmawr Road and should last around a week.<\/p>\n<p>Lengthy delays are expected on the road as well as on nearby Rhiwbina Hill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses in Rhiwbina claim they have lost significant money after gas works closed the main road for three weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[743,744,750],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19310"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19363,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19310\/revisions\/19363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}