{"id":2165,"date":"2010-12-14T12:04:38","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T12:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=2165"},"modified":"2010-12-14T12:04:38","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T12:04:38","slug":"plans-to-recast-hca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=2165","title":{"rendered":"Plans to recast HCA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Housing minister\u00a0Grant Shapps\u00a0and Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) chief executive Pat Ritchie have announced plans to recast the HCA as a smaller organisation in line with Government moves to reduce public expenditure and the size of arms-length bodies.<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\nThe HCA\u2019s running costs are being cut by half over two years. Key elements of the plans, which will be delivered by 2015, include: reducing the number of HCA directors from 12 to six, with the potential to reduce this further over time; and cutting from 17 to four the core HCA offices, with locations to be finalised within the broader Department for\u00a0Communities and Local Government\u00a0and public sector estate rationalisation programme.<\/p>\n<p>Search Planning Portal: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planningportal.gov.uk\/general\/news\/stories\/2010\/november2010\/25nov2010\/251110_7\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.planningportal.gov.uk\/general\/news\/stories\/2010\/november2010\/25nov2010\/251110_7\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Housing minister\u00a0Grant Shapps\u00a0and Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) chief executive Pat Ritchie have announced plans to recast the HCA as a smaller organisation in line with Government moves to reduce public expenditure and the size of arms-length bodies. The HCA\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=2165\">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-2165","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\/2165","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=2165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2166,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions\/2166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}