{"id":7792,"date":"2014-06-08T17:44:17","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T16:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=7792"},"modified":"2014-06-08T17:44:17","modified_gmt":"2014-06-08T16:44:17","slug":"fenland-overhauls-its-planning-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=7792","title":{"rendered":"Fenland overhauls its planning service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">An overhaul of Fenland District Council&#8217;s planning service is under way following a review carried out by a team of specialists drawn from the Planning Advisory Service (PAS) and the Local Government Association (LGA)<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Among the initiatives being implemented are clearer leadership, speedier processing of applications, including clearing the current backlog, and better use of technology.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate but related development, a High Court judge has refused an application for a judicial review of the council&#8217;s decision to grant planning permission for a Sainsbury&#8217;s superstore in Whittlesey.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fenland.gov.uk\/article\/8777\/Councils-planning-service-to-be-overhauled\" target=\"_blank\">Fenland District Council news release<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fenland.gov.uk\/article\/8805\/Judge-refuses-Judicial-Review-on-supermarket-decision\" target=\"_blank\">Fenland DC news release on the High Court judgment<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An overhaul of Fenland District Council&#8217;s planning service is under way following a review carried out by a team of specialists drawn from the Planning Advisory Service (PAS) and the Local Government Association (LGA). Among the initiatives being implemented are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=7792\">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-7792","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\/7792","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=7792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7793,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7792\/revisions\/7793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}