{"id":37721,"date":"2014-01-13T12:53:36","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T12:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=d10c19b07e03b8297ef83106afef4dbf"},"modified":"2014-01-13T12:53:36","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T12:53:36","slug":"government-response-response-to-claims-about-garden-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=37721","title":{"rendered":"Government response: Response to claims about garden cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Housing Minister Kris Hopkins said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As promised in the coalition agreement, this government has scrapped top-down Whitehall planning, including ending the last administration\u2019s failed so-called eco-towns programme which built nothing but resentment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Instead, this government is committed to working with local communities to build more homes and promote sustainable development. This includes providing finance for those large scale housing projects that are locally-supported and have the full backing of the community.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In February last year we published a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/local-infrastructure-fund-prospectus\">prospectus<\/a> inviting bids for a further \u00a3474 million of recoverable investment for 2013 to 2015 through our Local Infrastructure Fund.<\/p>\n<p>See further information on <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.publications.parliament.uk\/pa\/cm201314\/cmhansrd\/cm140108\/debtext\/140108-0002.htm#140108-0002.htm_spnew101\">housing<\/a> and <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.publications.parliament.uk\/pa\/cm201314\/cmhansrd\/cm131125\/text\/131125w0003.htm#131125w0003.htm_wqn66\">new towns<\/a> on the UK Parliament website.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Housing Minister Kris Hopkins responds to claims about a DCLG garden cities report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}