Sentence examples for Time councils from inspiring English sources

At the same time, councils stopped building homes partly due to economic constraints, and partly due to the ideological shift away from renting and towards home ownership.

It also confirms that tenancy rights are the right of the UK citizen but moveable at the behest of a devolved government – and perhaps, in time, councils.

This year, for the first time, councils will have to add a 2% adult social care precept to council tax bills.

And yet at the same time, councils have crucial jobs to do and work can't come to a halt as a result of reorganisation.

The watchdog said the scope for reducing lower cost services was now diminishing and, at the same time, councils had to deal with rising demand for high-cost services, such as children's social care.

For the first time, councils were required to list frauds affecting maintained schools separately, revealing 191 cases totalling £2.3m, 86 of which - with a combined value of £1.9m - involved internal fraud.

However, at around the same time, council officials issued possession proceedings which broke off the negotiations.

At the same time, council members acknowledged that further reforms may be needed.

At the time council officers had recommended the application for approval, but elected councillors refused it on design grounds.

At the time council leader Dilwyn Roberts told the meeting that the motion had made people "sit up and listen".

Oxford's housing shortage means that five to 10 households are being placed in emergency accommodation like hotels at any one time, council chiefs said.