{"id":23180,"date":"2019-07-04T09:06:41","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T08:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=23180"},"modified":"2019-07-01T17:40:36","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T16:40:36","slug":"planning-scotland-bill-passed-with-reflections-from-befs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=23180","title":{"rendered":"Planning (Scotland) Bill passed, with reflections from BEFS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-23181\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Euan_Leitch_BEFS_website_010719.png\" alt=\"person\" width=\"199\" height=\"213\" \/>The final vote on the Planning (Scotland) Bill took place on 20 June 2019 &#8211; after 3 days of vigorous debate \u2013 with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/befs.us10.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=5ff5cbf27087a00bd9eec1b1a&amp;id=763f8fc8ac&amp;e=90857c2a13\">Bill<\/a>\u00a0passing 78:26, supported by the SNP and Conservative MSPs, with Labour, Liberal and Green Party members voting against, while BEFS Director Euan Leitch has also offered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.befs.org.uk\/latest\/5181-2\/\">reflections<\/a> on responses to the Bill.<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image: BEFS Director Euan Leitch from BEFS website<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>All Amendments, with the decisions made in each case, can be found\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.befs.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/STAGE-3-Amendments-with-VOTING-results-.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>BEFS writes:<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the debates, BEFS issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.befs.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/BEFS-Stage-3-Planning-MSP-Briefing.pdf\">Stage 3 briefing<\/a> for MSPs, based on previous work by the Planning Taskforce and comments in relation to refreshed and new topics of interest to BEFS Membership.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.befs.org.uk\/latest\/befs-bulletin-planning-scotland-bill-passed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.befs.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/BEFS-Stage-3-Planning-MSP-Briefing.pdf\">Stage 3 briefing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.befs.org.uk\/latest\/5181-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bill reflections<\/a> from BEFS Director Euan Leitch<\/p>\n<p>For more background see the <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?s=Planning+Scotland+Bill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IHBC NewsBlogs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final vote on the Planning (Scotland) Bill took place on 20 June 2019 &#8211; after 3 days of vigorous debate \u2013 with the\u00a0Bill\u00a0passing 78:26, supported by the SNP and Conservative MSPs, with Labour, Liberal and Green Party members voting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=23180\">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-23180","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\/23180","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=23180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23182,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23180\/revisions\/23182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}