{"id":4342,"date":"2012-06-21T14:55:54","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T14:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=4342"},"modified":"2012-06-21T14:55:54","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T14:55:54","slug":"nts-jenkins-countryside-should-have-listed-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=4342","title":{"rendered":"NT\u2019s Jenkins: Countryside &#8216;should have listed status&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The countryside should be graded in the same way as listed buildings, according to Simon Jenkins, chairman of the National Trust (NT).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the Hay Festival, Mr Jenkins argued that the current planning regime did not do enough to protect the nation\u2019s most beautiful green spaces.<\/p>\n<p>He said local authorities should grade landscape from one to six, according to how beautiful it is, as well how often the public use it for leisure and how important it is for wildlife.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018If you graded the countryside it would be easier to save it,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Search Planning Portal<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planningportal.gov.uk\/general\/news\/stories\/2012\/june12\/140612\/140612_6\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Search Planning Resource<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planningresource.co.uk\/bulletin\/planningdaily\/article\/1135715\/countryside-should-listed-status\/\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Telegraph Article<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/hay-festival\/9322637\/Hay-Festival-2012-Simon-Jenkins-I-cannot-believe-we-allow-wind-farms-to-be-built-in-areas-of-natural-beauty.html\" target=\"_blank\">LINK <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The countryside should be graded in the same way as listed buildings, according to Simon Jenkins, chairman of the National Trust (NT). Speaking at the Hay Festival, Mr Jenkins argued that the current planning regime did not do enough to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=4342\">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-4342","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\/4342","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=4342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4343,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4342\/revisions\/4343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}