{"id":21733,"date":"2019-02-19T16:10:01","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T16:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=21733"},"modified":"2019-02-19T16:10:01","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T16:10:01","slug":"brokenshire-to-intervene-over-lamentable-failures-to-publish-local-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=21733","title":{"rendered":"Brokenshire to intervene over \u2018lamentable\u2019 failures to publish local plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/James_Brokenshire.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21734\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/James_Brokenshire.png\" alt=\"person\" width=\"184\" height=\"122\" \/><\/a>The secretary state for communities James Brokenshire has written to Wirral and Thanet councils warning them that Whitehall intended to intervene over their failure to put local plans in place as, under the 2004 Act Local Plan, the 338 local planning authorities in England are required to publish local plans that detail development strategies for their areas.<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image: Open Government Licence v3.0<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>LocalGov<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n<p>The Government confirmed in November 2017 that 15 councils had failed to put a local plan in place. Whitehall intervened in Wirral, Thanet and Castle Point the following March. Secretary of state for communities James Brokenshire wrote to Wirral again at the end of January due to the council\u2019s \u2018failure over many years to get a local plan in place\u2019. The last plan Wirral council published was in 2000, covering the period up to March 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Brokenshire acknowledged that the council did not have higher than average housing pressure. However, he described the council\u2019s performance on this issue as \u2018lamentable\u2019. \u2018In my judgement taking over the preparation of the local plan offers the best prospect of the plan-making process being accelerated and of ensuring that an up-to-date local plan is put in place as soon as possible\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u00a0 \u2018The intervention I have decided upon will provide more certainty and is the best way of ensuring that a Local Plan will be produced in accordance with the Local Development Scheme timetable,\u2019 he wrote.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.localgov.co.uk\/Brokenshire-to-intervene-over-lamentable-failures-to-publish-local-plans\/46817\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The secretary state for communities James Brokenshire has written to Wirral and Thanet councils warning them that Whitehall intended to intervene over their failure to put local plans in place as, under the 2004 Act Local Plan, the 338 local &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=21733\">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-21733","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\/21733","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=21733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21735,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21733\/revisions\/21735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}