{"id":461,"date":"2017-05-29T12:22:25","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T11:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/?p=461"},"modified":"2020-02-05T09:21:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T09:21:53","slug":"northumberland-county-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2017\/05\/29\/northumberland-county-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Northumberland County Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the local elections, the authority has a new political leadership so today I wrote to the new Leader of the Council asking for an opportunity to appraise him of SENRUG&#8217;s various campaigns, and in particular, for an assurance that the Council&#8217;s commitment to re-opening the Ashington Blyth &amp; Tyne re-opening remains in place (see our letter\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/widescope\/resources\/17-05-29-letter-to-ncc-leader-of-the-council.pdf\">here<\/a>). SENRUG started this campaign in 2004 and this is now the 3rd local authority we are dealing with. We started with a Labour-led Council who did not support, then changed to a Lib-Dem led Council who did support and did much of the early feasibility work, then back to a Labour led Council who have fully supported the scheme and got as far as Network Rail&#8217;s GRIP 2 Stage. So let&#8217;s hope the current Conservative-led authority will continue with that commitment, take us through to GRIP 4, and be the administration that finally signs the order with Network Rail.<em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the local elections, the authority has a new political leadership so today I wrote to the new Leader of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chairmans-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions\/462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}