{"id":5846,"date":"2013-05-24T15:56:38","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T15:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=5846"},"modified":"2013-05-24T15:56:38","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T15:56:38","slug":"planner-shortage-delays-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=5846","title":{"rendered":"Planner shortage delays development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Planning Officers Society has acknowledged claim by architects that a shortage of suitably qualified planners was a major factor in delays to development projects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the organisation highlighted a \u2018generation gap\u2019 of experienced planners caused by a hiatus in planning education during the 1980 and 1990s only recently rectified.<\/p>\n<p>The position had got worse now tighter budgeting meant many planning departments had cut staffing by up to 40 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Keily, the new president of the society, said: \u2018We are seeing planning schools under pressure again with many only surviving on a healthy foreign student intake. And for local planning authorities with fee income not fully funding development management services councils remain under pressure to balance their books.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The complexity of processing major applications does mean that it takes some time for officers to be fully trained and those areas that experience a sudden rise in large developments can be under pressure as a result.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Search Planning Portal<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planningportal.gov.uk\/general\/news\/stories\/2013\/may13\/230513\/23052013_6\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Planning Officers Society has acknowledged claim by architects that a shortage of suitably qualified planners was a major factor in delays to development projects. A spokesperson for the organisation highlighted a \u2018generation gap\u2019 of experienced planners caused by a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=5846\">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-5846","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\/5846","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=5846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5847,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5846\/revisions\/5847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}