{"id":36147,"date":"2023-04-11T16:04:45","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T15:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=36147"},"modified":"2023-04-10T17:03:41","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T16:03:41","slug":"plymouth-council-leader-quits-after-approving-cutting-down-of-110-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=36147","title":{"rendered":"Plymouth council leader quits after approving cutting down of 110 trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-36087\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Plymouth_Christine_Matthews_Commons_Wikimedia.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>Tory councillor Richard Bingley signed off night-time mass felling as part of \u00a312m regeneration scheme.<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image: for illustration \u2013\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/9\/93\/Plymouth_as_seen_from_the_Wheel_of_Plymouth_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3091953.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plymouth<\/a>\u00a0as seen from the Wheel of Plymouth by Christine Matthews, CC BY-SA 2.0, via<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Guardian<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n<p>A council leader who has been embroiled in a row after ordering the felling of more than 100 trees is to resign.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Bingley, the leader of Plymouth city council, plans to step down next week as leader of the Conservative group and head of the authority.<\/p>\n<p>He signed an executive decision that resulted in 110 trees being cut down in Armada Way on Tuesday night last week to make way for a \u00a312m regeneration scheme in the city centre\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2023\/mar\/23\/plymouth-council-leader-quits-after-approving-110-trees-being-cut-down\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more background see the <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=36086\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NewsBlog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tory councillor Richard Bingley signed off night-time mass felling as part of \u00a312m regeneration scheme. image: for illustration \u2013\u00a0\u00a0Plymouth\u00a0as seen from the Wheel of Plymouth by Christine Matthews, CC BY-SA 2.0, via\u00a0Wikimedia Commons<\/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-36147","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\/36147","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=36147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36148,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36147\/revisions\/36148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}