{"id":6694,"date":"2013-11-01T17:54:03","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T17:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=6694"},"modified":"2013-11-01T17:54:03","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T17:54:03","slug":"scotland-considers-presumption-in-favour-of-sustainable-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=6694","title":{"rendered":"Scotland considers presumption in favour of sustainable development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">A presumption in favour of sustainable development could be introduced in Scotland as a central plank in a key national planning policy, according to a consultation from the Scottish government.<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Scottish Government has issued a consultation paper setting out proposals for a revised section on &#8216;Sustainability and Planning&#8217; in Scottish Planning Policy (SPP).<\/p>\n<p>The administration is now considering replacing the Draft SPP principal policies on &#8216;sustainable economic growth&#8217; and &#8216;sustainable development&#8217; with a principal policy on &#8216;Sustainability and Planning&#8217; and introducing a presumption in favour of sustainable development into the SPP.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">See the Scottish Government consultation at<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotland.gov.uk\/Publications\/2013\/10\/3406\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Search Planning Portal<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planningportal.gov.uk\/general\/news\/stories\/2013\/october13\/311013\/311013_6\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A presumption in favour of sustainable development could be introduced in Scotland as a central plank in a key national planning policy, according to a consultation from the Scottish government.\u00a0 The Scottish Government has issued a consultation paper setting out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=6694\">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-6694","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\/6694","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=6694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6695,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6694\/revisions\/6695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}