{"id":48007,"date":"2014-09-25T16:43:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T16:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=f1baa36471adf77694d7a6c3218b29a5"},"modified":"2014-09-25T16:43:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T16:43:00","slug":"government-response-planning-application-in-lodge-hill-medway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=48007","title":{"rendered":"Government response: Planning Application in Lodge Hill, Medway"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>There have been a number of campaigns by organisations including the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds for the government to \u2018call-in\u2019 a planning application for 5,000 new homes on the Lodge Hill site in Medway.  <\/p>\n<p>A \u2018call-in\u2019 involves Whitehall taking a decision away from the elected local council and this being made by a Planning Minister. <\/p>\n<p>Only a small minority of such cases are called-in each year, generally where there is a wider national impact. This request for a call-in is being carefully considered with due process \u2013 but this should not be confused with a decision on the merits of the substantive application.<\/p>\n<p>Given the Secretary of State\u2019s membership of the <abbr title=\"Royal Society for the Protection of Birds\">RSPB<\/abbr>, the quasi-judicial decision will be made by a different Planning Minister in line with standard propriety guidance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government response to campaigns for the government to call in a planning application for 5,000 homes on the Lodge Hill site in Medway.<\/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\/48007"}],"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=48007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}