Sentence examples for clearance programmes from inspiring English sources

Then, from the 1930s onwards, there were successive 'slum clearance' programmes, culminating in mass demolition in the 1960s.

Slum clearance programmes in every Scottish city and town had enormously increased the number of council properties.

Whole neighbourhoods were torn down in slum clearance programmes, though they continued to be built in Leeds up to 1909.

These treaties have succeeded in binding signatory countries to renounce such weapons, destroy their stockpiles and assist with mine clearance programmes.

It has been obvious for at least 30 years that the sites of misery and exploitation, triumphantly erased in slum and industrial clearance programmes here, were only being erected elsewhere, and summoning into their service innocent young countrywomen, yesterday's dispossessed peasantry, surplus populations, just as occurred here in the late 18th and early 19th century.

By 1890 official slum clearance programmes had begun.

For five years from 1956, Mayne focused obsessively on Southam Street, later to be demolished as part of a slum clearance programme.

Back then, the postwar slum clearance programme inspired a boom in social housing that helped to quell the notoriously exploitative behaviour of private landlords.

Boris Johnson has welcomed it as a landmark scheme but to me it's a new-fashioned urban clearance programme devised by ideologues and profit-seekers and masquerading as a blueprint for paradise.

A major slum clearance programme led to a large decline in the number of people living in substandard rental properties, but Shelter chief executive Campbell Robb said many of the issues Shelter sought to address half a century ago persist.

His remarks came as the African Union rejected calls by Britain and the US to intervene in Zimbabwe, where Mr Mugabe is conducting a slum clearance programme that has left hundreds of thousands homeless.