{"id":6910,"date":"2013-12-09T18:31:38","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T18:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=6910"},"modified":"2013-12-09T18:31:38","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T18:31:38","slug":"welsh-government-issues-draft-planning-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=6910","title":{"rendered":"Welsh Government issues draft Planning Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Welsh Government has issued its draft Planning Bill for consultation which will close on 26 February 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The draft Bill and supporting consultation paper, \u2018Positive Planning: proposals to reform of the planning system in Wales\u2019, outline a series of proposals which will improve the planning system to help deliver the homes, jobs and infrastructure that current and future generations need. The proposals include:<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The introduction of a national development plan<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A new tier of regional plan to address issues of more than local importance such as housing land supply<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A new tier of applications, identified as being of national significance, which the Welsh Ministers would determine<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The introduction of a Planning Advisory and Improvement Service to support skills and culture change.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A series of improvements to the development management and Local Development Plan system.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Visit the Welsh Government\u2019s Planning Bill web page at<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/wales.gov.uk\/consultations\/planning\/draft-planning-wales-bill\/?skip=1&amp;lang=en\">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\/december13\/051213\/051213_4\">LINK<\/a><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Welsh Government has issued its draft Planning Bill for consultation which will close on 26 February 2014. The draft Bill and supporting consultation paper, \u2018Positive Planning: proposals to reform of the planning system in Wales\u2019, outline a series of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=6910\">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-6910","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\/6910","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=6910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6911,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6910\/revisions\/6911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}