{"id":6890,"date":"2013-12-09T18:23:13","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T18:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=6890"},"modified":"2013-12-09T18:23:13","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T18:23:13","slug":"court-challenge-to-planning-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=6890","title":{"rendered":"Court challenge to planning rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">A group of London boroughs today begin a legal challenge over the government\u2019s decision to relax planning rules to allow offices to be used as residential properties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Islington, Camden, Richmond upon Thames and Lambeth LBCs are bringing a joint action against the plans, which the government introduced earlier this years.<\/p>\n<p>Under the General Permitted Development Order, offices can be turned into homes without planning permission, giving residents no change to object.<\/p>\n<p>The councils claim the new rules will lose employment space and ultimately cut local jobs, and the quality of housing will not be controllable.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">UK Local Government News<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.localgov.co.uk\/index.cfm?method=news.detail&amp;id=111854\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of London boroughs today begin a legal challenge over the government\u2019s decision to relax planning rules to allow offices to be used as residential properties. Islington, Camden, Richmond upon Thames and Lambeth LBCs are bringing a joint action &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=6890\">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-6890","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\/6890","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=6890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6891,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6890\/revisions\/6891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}