{"id":6481,"date":"2013-09-23T17:21:58","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T16:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=6481"},"modified":"2013-09-23T17:21:58","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T16:21:58","slug":"ihbcs-past-chair-supports-joint-htf-pedestrian-towns-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=6481","title":{"rendered":"IHBC\u2019s past chair support\u2019s joint HTF \u2018pedestrian towns\u2019 letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The IHBC\u2019s former chair, Dave Chetwyn, now Chair of the Historic Towns Forum, is a co-signatory on the letter to the <i>Telegraph<\/i> on 21 September, written in support of Living Streets\u2019 new report, <i>The Pedestrian Pound<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The letter reads:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We welcome Norman Baker MP\u2019s support for prioritising pedestrians in town centres.<\/p>\n<p>Living Streets\u2019 new report, The Pedestrian Pound, released this week, shows that investment in public realm improvements can boost footfall and trading by up to 40 per cent. Pedestrians stay longer and spend up to six times more than people arriving by car, yet this is largely ignored by politicians and policy makers.<\/p>\n<p>Healthy high streets are full of people. The Government needs to invest in and support good quality public spaces where people can easily and conveniently arrive and move around on foot.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Signatories:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tony Armstrong ?Chief executive, Living Streets<br \/>\nChris Wade ?Chief executive, Action for Market Towns<br \/>\nMartin Blackwell ?Chief executive, Association of Town Centre Management<br \/>\nBill Grimsey?Retail specialist<br \/>\nIan Harvey ?Civic Voice<br \/>\nDave Chetwyn ?Chair, Historic Towns Forum<br \/>\nSophia da Sousa ?Chief executive, The Glass-House Community Led Design<br \/>\nRosanna Downes ?Campaigns and Communications Manager, Living Streets<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Telegraph &#8211; letters<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/comment\/letters\/10324088\/We-cannot-ignore-the-role-of-Western-governments-in-world-hunger.html \" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IHBC\u2019s former chair, Dave Chetwyn, now Chair of the Historic Towns Forum, is a co-signatory on the letter to the Telegraph on 21 September, written in support of Living Streets\u2019 new report, The Pedestrian Pound. The letter reads: We &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=6481\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6481","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=6481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6482,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6481\/revisions\/6482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}