{"id":3636,"date":"2024-02-03T12:02:11","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T12:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eclt.eastington.website\/?page_id=3636"},"modified":"2025-11-03T11:49:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T11:49:48","slug":"project-2-breaking-ground","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/eclt.eastington.website\/?page_id=3636","title":{"rendered":"Project 2 &#8211; Breaking Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Guess what had to be the first installation &#8211; November 2024<\/h3>\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3915\" style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 300;\" src=\"https:\/\/eclt.eastington.website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Homeground-signs-in-place-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"562\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eclt.eastington.website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Homeground-signs-in-place-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/eclt.eastington.website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Homeground-signs-in-place-1-300x287.jpg 300w, https:\/\/eclt.eastington.website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Homeground-signs-in-place-1-1024x979.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/eclt.eastington.website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Homeground-signs-in-place-1-768x734.jpg 768w, https:\/\/eclt.eastington.website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Homeground-signs-in-place-1-1536x1468.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/eclt.eastington.website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Homeground-signs-in-place-1-2048x1958.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 562px) 100vw, 562px\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3>Official Golden Spade Ceremony May 22nd 2025<\/h3>\n<p>The traditional &#8220;digging of the first sod&#8221; ceremony was postponed for better weather!<\/p>\n<p>Using ECLT&#8217;s unique Golden Spade, which symbolises everyone lending a hand, senior people from all stakeholders gathered to commemorate this \u00a37 million joint endeavour.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4334\" src=\"https:\/\/eclt.eastington.website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Breaking-Ground-crop-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"410\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Holding the handle, (L to R) Terri Hibberd (Two Rivers, Project Manager), Cllr Lynne Farnden (ECLT Trustee and Parish Council), Hayley Selway (Two Rivers CEO), Cllr Muriel Bullock (ECLT Vice Chair and Parish Council Chair), Martin Elliott (ECLT Trustee), Tom Low (ECLT Treasurer).<\/p>\n<p>Also present were representatives of GP Thomas (builders), Homes England (main financial backer), and Stroud DC (Councillors and Officers).<\/p>\n<p>For a few quotes from Chairmen, follow this link:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tworivershousing.org.uk\/2025\/07\/eastington-site-visit-july-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Two Rivers Press Release<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guess what had to be the first installation &#8211; November 2024 Official Golden Spade Ceremony May 22nd 2025 The traditional &#8220;digging of the first sod&#8221; ceremony was postponed for better weather! Using ECLT&#8217;s unique Golden Spade, which symbolises everyone lending <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/eclt.eastington.website\/?page_id=3636\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Project 2 &#8211; Breaking Ground<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2202,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3636","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eclt.eastington.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eclt.eastington.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eclt.eastington.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eclt.eastington.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eclt.eastington.website\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3636"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/eclt.eastington.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4558,"href":"https:\/\/eclt.eastington.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3636\/revisions\/4558"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eclt.eastington.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eclt.eastington.website\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}