{"id":8721,"date":"2014-10-10T16:17:38","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T15:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=8721"},"modified":"2014-10-10T16:17:38","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T15:17:38","slug":"conference-season-lib-dems-on-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=8721","title":{"rendered":"Conference season: Lib Dems on housing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Several announcements on housing were made at the Liberal Democrats (Lib Dems) conference, including proposals for three new garden cities; the amendment of the New Towns Act to give Local Authorities further powers; the launch of new apprenticeship and training programmes, and the establishment of a housing taskforce<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg pledged that the Liberal Democrats will insist in any future coalition negotiations that 10 new garden cities should be built in England including five along a planned new express rail line linking Oxford and Cambridge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\/anglia\/2014-10-06\/nick-clegg-says-three-new-garden-cities-should-be-built-between-cambridge-and-oxford\/\" target=\"_blank\">Garden cities proposals reported by ITV news<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.libdems.org.uk\/f21_building_the_affordable_homes_we_need\" target=\"_blank\">Liberal Democrats conference motions on housing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"%20https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?s=party+conference\" target=\"_blank\">IHBC newsblogs on party conferences<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planningportal.gov.uk\/general\/news\/stories\/2014\/october14\/091014\/091014_5\" target=\"_blank\">Search Planning Portal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several announcements on housing were made at the Liberal Democrats (Lib Dems) conference, including proposals for three new garden cities; the amendment of the New Towns Act to give Local Authorities further powers; the launch of new apprenticeship and training &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=8721\">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-8721","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\/8721","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=8721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8722,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8721\/revisions\/8722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}