{"id":11187,"date":"2015-09-30T16:25:55","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T15:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=11187"},"modified":"2015-09-30T16:25:55","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T15:25:55","slug":"moorlands-district-council-planning-vote-claim-probed-by-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=11187","title":{"rendered":"Moorlands District Council planning vote claim probed by police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><u>The BBC reports that <\/u><u>police are reviewing allegations the leader of a Staffordshire council&#8217;s planning group abused his position as <\/u><u>Michael Worthington, chairman of Staffordshire Moorlands District Council&#8217;s planning committee, was caught on camera saying he was \u2018under instructions. to vote a certain way.<\/u><\/p>\n<p>Last month, Mr Worthington voted to approve an application to build up to 10 new homes on the site of Endon Riding School, near Endon, even though officers had recommended it be refused. It was approved by seven votes to four.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/portaldirector.wordpress.com\/2015\/09\/24\/police-probe-over-staffordshire-council-planning-chairmans-comments\/\" target=\"_blank\">Planning Portal Blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-34276969\" target=\"_blank\">BBC new item<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC reports that police are reviewing allegations the leader of a Staffordshire council&#8217;s planning group abused his position as Michael Worthington, chairman of Staffordshire Moorlands District Council&#8217;s planning committee, was caught on camera saying he was \u2018under instructions. to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=11187\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11188,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11187\/revisions\/11188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}