{"id":7928,"date":"2014-06-27T17:27:23","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T16:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=7928"},"modified":"2014-06-27T17:27:23","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T16:27:23","slug":"in-court-heritage-nature-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=7928","title":{"rendered":"In court: heritage, nature &#038; beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Consent for the multi-million pound redevelopment of Gravesend\u2019s Heritage Quarter is under threat now a local campaign group has decided to go to court over the way the scheme was approved by the Kent local authority<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Key elements of the housing sites allocation strategy of Rochford District Council\u2019s adopted local plan have been challenged in the High Court in a case brought by a local resident who chairs a group campaigning against the release of Green Belt land.<\/p>\n<p>Local campaigners over plans to allow exploratory drilling for oil and gas at a Surrey beauty spot have lost their Appeals Court challenge. The court upheld an earlier ruling by a High Court judge overturning the refusal by Surrey County Council to allow Europa Oil and Gas Ltd\u2019s drilling proposals for a site at Holmwood near Dorking in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.<\/p>\n<p>A High Court judge has overturned a decision by Communities Secretary Eric Pickles, to refuse an appeal over a 24 megawatt solar farm at Beccles, Suffolk, which the planning inspector who held the recovered appeal recommended should be allowed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planningportal.gov.uk\/general\/news\/stories\/2014\/june14\/260614\/260614_6\" target=\"_blank\">Search Planning Portal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consent for the multi-million pound redevelopment of Gravesend\u2019s Heritage Quarter is under threat now a local campaign group has decided to go to court over the way the scheme was approved by the Kent local authority. Key elements of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=7928\">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-7928","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\/7928","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=7928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7929,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7928\/revisions\/7929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}