{"id":1276,"date":"2010-05-04T15:52:45","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T15:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=1276"},"modified":"2010-05-04T15:52:45","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T15:52:45","slug":"sustainable-communities-bill-receives-royal-assent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=1276","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable Communities Bill receives Royal Assent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The new Act improves the process to allow communities a greater say in how their proposed changes can happen.<\/div>\n<p>Under existing legislation, people are able to propose changes to Government policies or national laws which they feel would help their local area economically, socially or environmentally.<\/p>\n<p>The principles behind the new Act &#8211; and the original Sustainable Communities Act (2007) &#8211; are aligned with recent reforms of local government, and the policy direction set out last autumn in the paper Putting the Frontline First.<\/p>\n<p>The Government recently announced the first ten ideas to receive its support under the 2007 Act.<\/p>\n<p>Communities News &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.communities.gov.uk\/news\/corporate\/1536282\"><strong>LINK<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Act improves the process to allow communities a greater say in how their proposed changes can happen. Under existing legislation, people are able to propose changes to Government policies or national laws which they feel would help their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=1276\">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-1276","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\/1276","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=1276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1277,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions\/1277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}