{"id":9832,"date":"2015-03-21T15:49:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-21T15:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=9832"},"modified":"2015-03-21T15:49:26","modified_gmt":"2015-03-21T15:49:26","slug":"budget-2015-more-consultation-than-consolation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=9832","title":{"rendered":"Budget 2015: \u2018more consultation than consolation\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, has delivered his last <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Budget<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u00a0of this parliament offering little hope for the infrastructure of heritage management or its role in sustainable development, though outlining some relevant changes, with headline changes that include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>allowing public spending to grow in line with national income in 2019-20, ending the public spending cuts a year earlier than planned<\/li>\n<li>extending the City Deal model to Aberdeen, Cardiff and Inverness \u2013 City Deals being agreements that allow the city to take responsibility for decisions that affect its area, including helping businesses grow, creating economic growth and decide how public money should be spent &#8211; and to expand a number of Enterprise Zones<\/li>\n<li>consultations that could affect the heritage: on the reform of the compulsory purchase regime, to support the government\u2019s commitment to improve the consenting programme for support brownfield development, and on the reform of the Landfill Communities Fund to accelerate the spending of funds on community projects, reduce administrative costs and simplify administrative processes<\/li>\n<li>that the Government will provide a further \u00a340 million to the Listed Places of Worship \u2013 Roof Repair Fund to support vital roof repairs in 2015 to 2017<\/li>\n<li>so-called capacity funding to support Bicester\u2019s ambition to become a garden town and \u00a31m funding to allow the London Land Commission to produce a database of public sector land and map all brown field land in the capital<\/li>\n<li>confirming proposals to devolve planning powers over sightlines and wharves to the Mayor London.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/consultations\/improving-the-compulsory-purchase-process\" target=\"_blank\">Compulsory purchase regime consultation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/consultations\/reform-of-the-landfill-communities-fund\" target=\"_blank\">Consultation on the Landfill Communities fund<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofengland.org\/media-centre\/news\/2015\/03\/government-announces-additional-\u00a340-million-for-church-building-repairs.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Roof repair schemes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planningportal.gov.uk\/general\/news\/stories\/2015\/Mar15\/190315\/190315_1\" target=\"_blank\">Search Planning Portal<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/budget-2015-documents\" target=\"_blank\">Full details of the budget<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, has delivered his last Budget\u00a0of this parliament offering little hope for the infrastructure of heritage management or its role in sustainable development, though outlining some relevant changes, with headline changes that include: allowing &hellip; 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