{"id":5595,"date":"2013-03-29T17:01:50","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T17:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=5595"},"modified":"2013-03-29T17:01:50","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T17:01:50","slug":"lords-defeat-wont-change-home-extension-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=5595","title":{"rendered":"Lords defeat won\u2019t change home extension plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ministers say that a temporary relaxation of extension rules will boost the building industry, while a consultation on plans to double the maximum size of home extensions in England will continue despite a defeat on the issue in the House of Lords.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Peers voted to give individual councils the power to reject a three-year relaxation of the rules as Conservative Lord True, who put forward the amendment, called the coalition&#8217;s home-extensions proposal \u2018ludicrous\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The government, which argues the change will boost construction, said the defeat \u2018doesn&#8217;t change\u2019 its position.<\/p>\n<p>Ministers announced last year that they were considering a three-year relaxation of the maximum depth of single-storey extensions from four metres to eight metres for detached houses and from three metres to six metres for other houses.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">BBC News<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/m.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-21957396\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministers say that a temporary relaxation of extension rules will boost the building industry, while a consultation on plans to double the maximum size of home extensions in England will continue despite a defeat on the issue in the House &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=5595\">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-5595","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\/5595","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=5595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5596,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595\/revisions\/5596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}