{"id":3460,"date":"2011-12-06T16:00:03","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T16:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=3460"},"modified":"2011-12-06T16:00:03","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T16:00:03","slug":"more-funding-for-pathfinder-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=3460","title":{"rendered":"More funding for Pathfinder areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_2_0_1_13230224935312072\"><span id=\"yui_3_2_0_1_13230224935312066\" style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Housing Minister Grant Shapps has announced the allocation of more than \u00a371m to help families trapped in half-empty and abandoned streets in the Midlands and the north of England as a result of the now aborted Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder programme.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A total of 13 projects in the worst-hit areas &#8211; Merseyside, East Lancashire, North Staffordshire, Hull and Teesside &#8211; will receive a cash injection to help their local communities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>These areas originally bid for a share of a \u00a330m fund\u00a0that they would then match\u00a0&#8211; but the minister said an extra \u00a35.5m had been added to ensure that every street or block with more than half its properties lying vacant would benefit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Read the Department for Communities and Local Government press notice at<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.communities.gov.uk\/news\/corporate\/2036698\" target=\"_blank\">LINK <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Search Planning Portal:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planningportal.gov.uk\/general\/news\/stories\/2011\/dec11\/011211\/011211_7_new\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Housing Minister Grant Shapps has announced the allocation of more than \u00a371m to help families trapped in half-empty and abandoned streets in the Midlands and the north of England as a result of the now aborted Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=3460\">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-3460","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\/3460","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=3460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3461,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460\/revisions\/3461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}