{"id":5491,"date":"2013-03-01T18:51:06","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T18:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=5491"},"modified":"2013-03-01T18:51:06","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T18:51:06","slug":"smart-growth-development-urged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=5491","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Smart growth\u2019 development urged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">An alliance of civic, environmental and transport bodies has launched a campaign urging a so-called \u2018smart growth\u2019 approach for new large-scale development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Organisations involved include the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), the Campaign for Better Transport and Civic Voice.<\/p>\n<p>The alliance believes that new development should blend the well-designed family terraced housing with gardens of a typical British Edwardian suburb with cutting-edge practice from across the world, such as recently developed \u2018eco-suburbs\u2019 in Freiburg (Germany) and Stockholm.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Such developments<\/span>:<br \/>\n\u00b7 provide energy-efficient housing at high residential densities<br \/>\n\u00b7 reuse brown field land as much as possible<br \/>\n\u00b7 are easily linked to town and city centres by public transport<br \/>\n\u00b7 are designed so that walking or cycling is the norm for everyday travel<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Search Planning Portal<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planningportal.gov.uk\/general\/news\/stories\/2013\/Feb13\/280213\/28022013_6\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An alliance of civic, environmental and transport bodies has launched a campaign urging a so-called \u2018smart growth\u2019 approach for new large-scale development. Organisations involved include the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), the Campaign for Better Transport and Civic Voice. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=5491\">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-5491","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\/5491","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=5491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5492,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5491\/revisions\/5492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}