{"id":7936,"date":"2014-06-27T17:44:01","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T16:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=7936"},"modified":"2014-06-27T17:44:01","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T16:44:01","slug":"final-report-on-conservation-covenants-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=7936","title":{"rendered":"Final report on conservation covenants published"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Law Commission has published their final report into conservation covenants this week, recommending the introduction of a new statutory form of conservation covenants in England and Wales, with the report now being considered by Government<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>IHBC members will be interested to note that the summary document states the purpose of a conservation covenant as being \u2018the landowner promises to do something, or not do something, on his or her land to achieve a conservation objective such as preserving a historic building, cultivating a particular species of plant, protecting a habitat, or farming land in a certain way\u2019 (para 1.1)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lawcommission.justice.gov.uk\/areas\/conservation-covenants.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Law Commission article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/322590\/41070_HC_322_Accessible.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">UK Gov full report<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lawcommission.justice.gov.uk\/docs\/lc349_conservation-covenants_summary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Law Commission\u00a0summary<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lawcommission.justice.gov.uk\/docs\/cp211_conservation-covenants_responses.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Law Commission\u00a0consultation responses<\/a>, including the IHBC response<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=5597\u00a0\" target=\"_blank\">IHBC newsblogs on the consultation launch<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Law Commission has published their final report into conservation covenants this week, recommending the introduction of a new statutory form of conservation covenants in England and Wales, with the report now being considered by Government. IHBC members will be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=7936\">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-7936","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\/7936","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=7936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7937,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7936\/revisions\/7937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}