{"id":332903,"date":"2025-08-10T10:35:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T10:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/332903\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T10:35:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T10:35:18","slug":"rules-on-owning-pets-ease-for-families-in-900-military-homes-in-northern-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/332903\/","title":{"rendered":"Rules on owning pets ease for families in 900 military homes in Northern Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Service personnel and their families have previously faced a bureaucratic process to get permission to own a pet if they live in military housing.<\/p>\n<p>From this week, they can now keep up to two dogs, cats or smaller pets without needing permission.<\/p>\n<p>The change is part of wider reforms that will allow military homes to be more personalised, including an easier process for allowing family members of troops to run a business from their home.<\/p>\n<p>The changes are part of Defence Secretary John Healey\u2019s pledge to \u201cstop the rot\u201d and improve standards in service accommodation.<\/p>\n<p>In April, Mr Healey announced a new \u201cconsumer charter\u201d for service accommodation, including more reliable repairs, a named housing officer for every service family and a higher minimum standard for housing.<\/p>\n<p>The Government has also brought 36,000 military homes back into public ownership in an effort to reduce costs and improve standards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Service personnel and their families have previously faced a bureaucratic process to get permission to own a pet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-332903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-northern-ireland","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115004029329775693","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}