{"id":83669,"date":"2026-01-17T18:14:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T18:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=83669"},"modified":"2026-01-17T18:14:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T18:14:42","slug":"welsh-village-erupts-in-fury-over-plans-to-house-70-asylum-seekers-in-a-former-care-home-as-500-locals-queue-up-to-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/17\/welsh-village-erupts-in-fury-over-plans-to-house-70-asylum-seekers-in-a-former-care-home-as-500-locals-queue-up-to-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Welsh village erupts in fury over plans to house 70 asylum seekers in a former care home as 500 locals queue up to protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2026\/01\/16\/17\/105580041-15471061-image-a-1_1768584381873.jpg\" alt=\"Around 500 worried locals turned up for a public meeting over plans to accommodate asylum seekers at a former sheltered housing complex in\u00a0Rhosllanerchrugog, near Wrexham\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Plans to house 70 asylum seekers next to a medical centre in the heart of a Welsh village have sparked uproar. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-15471061\/Fury-plans-house-70-asylum-seekers-Welsh-village.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Plans to house 70 asylum seekers next to a medical centre in the heart of a Welsh village have sparked uproar. Read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Plas-Yn-Rhos-site.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83671,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83669\/revisions\/83671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}