{"id":9286,"date":"2015-01-09T17:21:49","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T17:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=9286"},"modified":"2015-01-09T17:24:20","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T17:24:20","slug":"dclgs-plain-english-guides-to-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=9286","title":{"rendered":"DCLG\u2019s &#8216;Plain English&#8217; guides to planning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG)<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> Housing and planning minister Brandon Lewis has launched a &#8216;plain English&#8217; guide to planning for free schools, with an accompanying guide to the planning system in general.<\/span><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">DCLG writes:<br \/>\n<\/span>Communities looking to have their say over the future development of their local area will have all the information they need at their fingertips, thanks to a new guide to the planning system published today (5 January 2015).<\/p>\n<p>Housing and Planning Minister Brandon Lewis published a new plain English guide to how England\u2019s planning system works, making clear the opportunities for people to get involved in the debate over what gets built in their neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2010 the government has implemented wide-ranging radical reforms of the planning system, including abolishing the unpopular and ineffective Regional Strategies and give local people a greater say over future building in their area.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s new guide offers a quick and easy explanation of how the new planning system works, how local and neighbourhood plans are written and adopted locally, and how to go about obtaining planning permission.<\/p>\n<p>Housing and Planning Minister Brandon Lewis said: \u2018The previous system of top-down targets left residents powerless in the face of local development \u2013 our reforms have reversed this, and put people back in control.<\/p>\n<p>People are already voting with their feet, with 1,200 communities involved in neighbourhood plans, and 80% of authorities have published a local plan \u2013 this plain English guide gives all the information anyone would need to get involved in the local decision-making process.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/plain-english-guide-to-the-planning-system\" target=\"_blank\">UK Gov\u00a0guide<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/power-back-in-peoples-hands-to-have-a-say-over-future-development\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) Housing and planning minister Brandon Lewis has launched a &#8216;plain English&#8217; guide to planning for free schools, with an accompanying guide to the planning system in general.\u00a0 DCLG writes: Communities looking to have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=9286\">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-9286","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\/9286","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=9286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9289,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9286\/revisions\/9289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}