{"id":13597,"date":"2016-08-31T16:02:10","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T15:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=13597"},"modified":"2016-08-30T18:38:31","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T17:38:31","slug":"planning-portal-pd-interactive-tools-to-be-relaunched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=13597","title":{"rendered":"Planning Portal PD interactive tools to be relaunched"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The helpful interactive tools published by Planning Portal in England which explain permitted development (PD) rights are to be relaunched, using new technology and fully responsive interfaces which mean they work on all devices.<\/h3>\n<p>Planning Portal writes:<\/p>\n<p>The current Planning Portal interactive houses have been with us since 2008.\u00a0 They were ahead of their time, but the technology they use is now out of date and critically, can\u2019t be viewed on mobile devices.\u00a0 Given that mobile and tablet usage continues to grow and the rest of our site is completely responsive to different screen sizes, it\u2019s time to upgrade them.<\/p>\n<p>So for the last few months we\u2019ve been working on new improved interactive guides, using technology which can be seen on all types of device, including all Apple and Android ones, and is responsive to different screen sizes.\u00a0 We\u2019ve taken the opportunity to improve the integration between the houses, the mini guides and the site content, making it easier for users to find what they want more easily.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve also taken a fresh, modern approach to the design, using an illustrative style which research tells us makes it easier for users to relate to their own homes.<\/p>\n<p>Much as we loved the old houses, we\u2019re really excited about the new ones and hope you will be too.\u00a0 They\u2019ll be live next Wednesday, 31<sup>st<\/sup> August on the English site, but you can see a sneak preview of the new homepage below.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"ULSwwbFFJi\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.planningportal.co.uk\/2016\/08\/25\/were-moving-house-interactive-house-in-fact\/\">We\u2019re moving house\u2026.interactive house in&nbsp;fact!<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;We\u2019re moving house\u2026.interactive house in&nbsp;fact!&#8221; &#8212; Planning Portal Blog\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.planningportal.co.uk\/2016\/08\/25\/were-moving-house-interactive-house-in-fact\/embed\/#?secret=s3iOXBa827#?secret=ULSwwbFFJi\" data-secret=\"ULSwwbFFJi\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The helpful interactive tools published by Planning Portal in England which explain permitted development (PD) rights are to be relaunched, using new technology and fully responsive interfaces which mean they work on all devices. Planning Portal writes: The current Planning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=13597\">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-13597","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\/13597","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=13597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13598,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13597\/revisions\/13598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}