{"id":23137,"date":"2019-07-01T10:05:38","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T09:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=23137"},"modified":"2019-06-29T17:20:27","modified_gmt":"2019-06-29T16:20:27","slug":"befs-parliament-debates-motions-from-scotlands-working-group-on-tenement-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=23137","title":{"rendered":"BEFS: Parliament debates motions from Scotland\u2019s Working Group on Tenement Maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-20184\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Scottish_Gov_logo.png\" alt=\"logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"69\" \/>The Scottish Parliament has debated motions based on recommendations from The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.befs.org.uk\/policy-topics\/buildings-maintenance-2\/\">Scottish Parliamentary cross-party Working Group for Tenement Maintenance<\/a>, of which BEFS and RICS are the secretariat.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>BEFS writes:<\/p>\n<p>MSPs recognised that the issue needs addressed and Kevin Stewart, Minister for Local Government, Planning and Housing, has committed to a substantive response from the Scottish Government to the recommendations in the autumn. The consensual, non-partisan nature of the working group was recognised by all side in the Chamber and appreciation of the hard work of the stakeholders acknowledged.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full debate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottishparliament.tv\/meeting\/debate-working-group-on-tenement-maintenance-june-26-2019\">here<\/a> or read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.scot\/parliamentarybusiness\/report.aspx?r=12208\">transcript.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.befs.org.uk\/policy-topics\/buildings-maintenance-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See more in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.befs.org.uk\/latest\/report-calls-for-scottish-government-to-reassess-tenement-maintenance-legislation-in-scotland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For background see the <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?s=tenement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IHBC NewsBlogs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Scottish Parliament has debated motions based on recommendations from The Scottish Parliamentary cross-party Working Group for Tenement Maintenance, of which BEFS and RICS are the secretariat.<\/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-23137","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\/23137","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=23137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23139,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23137\/revisions\/23139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}