{"id":1668,"date":"2010-08-20T18:08:22","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T18:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=1668"},"modified":"2010-08-20T18:05:58","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T18:05:58","slug":"pickles-responds-to-%e2%80%98larger-than-local%e2%80%99-advocacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=1668","title":{"rendered":"Pickles responds to \u2018larger than local\u2019 advocacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Eric Pickles has responded positively to the cross-sector promotion of<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=1639%29\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018larger than local\u2019 planning<\/a> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">in a letter that adopts \u00a0\u2018strategic planning\u2019 as an official phrase in the new government. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Pickles has said that the government is \u2018considering what additional tools or mechanisms can be added to the legislative framework to enable \u201cstrategic planning.\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Kelvin MacDonald, leading the campaign for RTPI, has said: &#8220;I am very pleased to say that the Secretary of State has responded to our letter of 29th July in what I consider to be a very positive way\u2019, noting that the response \u2018provides a real focus and opportunity for engagement that the CLG did not necessarily have to offer us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Download the response <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ihbc.org.uk\/news\/docs\/Letter from Eric Pickles re larger than local planning[2].pdf\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a><br \/>\nSee the \u2018larger than local\u2019 NewsBlog: <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=1639\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Pickles has responded positively to the cross-sector promotion of \u2018larger than local\u2019 planning in a letter that adopts \u00a0\u2018strategic planning\u2019 as an official phrase in the new government. Pickles has said that the government is \u2018considering what additional tools &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=1668\">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-1668","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\/1668","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=1668"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1758,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions\/1758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}