{"id":32028,"date":"2021-12-14T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T17:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=32028"},"modified":"2021-12-14T17:50:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T17:50:00","slug":"gove-a-bit-of-a-catch-for-housing-ministry-says-former-chief-architect-to-bd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=32028","title":{"rendered":"Gove \u2018a bit of a catch\u2019 for housing ministry, says former chief architect\u00a0 to BD"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-31501\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/MichaelGove_Open_Government_Licence_v3-300x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>Michael Gove is \u2018a bit of a catch\u2019 for the renamed Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, the former chief architect has said, as Gove\u2019s early planning decisions suggest \u2018beauty remains high on new secretary of state\u2019s agenda\u2019.<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image: Open Government Licence v3.0<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>Building Design<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n<p>Andy von Bradsky, who was the government\u2019s head of architecture until the summer, said Robert Jenrick\u2019s high-profile replacement at the former Ministry of Housing had made him question his decision to step down\u2026 also said Gove\u2019s early decisions on public inquiries showed he had not junked the beauty agenda that was such a key focus of his predecessor\u2019s time in office \u2013 despite \u2018levelling-up\u2019 being his number one priority\u2026 \u2018he is very much embracing the design agenda,\u2019 he told <em>Building Design<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bdonline.co.uk\/news\/gove-a-bit-of-a-catch-for-housing-ministry-says-former-chief-architect\/5114770.article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a> (restricted access)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Gove is \u2018a bit of a catch\u2019 for the renamed Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, the former chief architect has said, as Gove\u2019s early planning decisions suggest \u2018beauty remains high on new secretary of state\u2019s agenda\u2019. image: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=32028\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32028","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\/32028","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32029,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32028\/revisions\/32029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}