{"id":1799,"date":"2011-04-13T11:07:53","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T10:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/?p=1799"},"modified":"2011-04-13T11:07:53","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T10:07:53","slug":"localism-bill-in-plain-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/localism-bill-in-plain-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Localism Bill in plain English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/abd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Plain-English-Guide-to-the-Localism-Bill1.pdf\">Plain English Guide to the Localism Bill <\/a>has now been produced by Communities and Local Government.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This guide describes the main measures of the Localism Bill under four headings:<\/p>\n<p>1. New freedoms and flexibilities for local government.<\/p>\n<p>2. New rights and powers for communities and individuals.<\/p>\n<p>3. Reform to make the planning system more democratic and more effective.<\/p>\n<p>4. Reform to ensure that decisions about housing are taken locally.<\/p>\n<p>This document is designed to give an overview only. You can read the Bill and its explanatory notes in full, and follow its progress through parliament, on the <a href=\"http:\/\/services.parliament.uk\/bills\/2010-11\/localism.html\">parliament website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The document <a href=\"http:\/\/www.communities.gov.uk\/documents\/localgovernment\/pdf\/1793908.pdf\">Decentralisation and the Localism Bill: an essential guide <\/a>also gives further background. It explains how the principles that underpin the Localism Bill also inform other government policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Plain English Guide to the Localism Bill has now been produced by Communities and Local Government.\u00a0 This guide describes the main measures of the Localism Bill under four headings: 1. New freedoms and flexibilities for local government. 2. New rights and powers for communities and individuals. 3. Reform to make the planning system more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}