Sentence examples for council objections from inspiring English sources

Council objections to three Highland wind farms have led to the Scottish government being urged to create a national plan to protect wild areas.

After charges of mismanagement and corruption, the Department of Human Services is likely to be disbanded, despite Council objections, and have its funding transferred to outside agencies.

In Islington, the firm is behind 1,000 new homes approved by Boris Johnson, London's mayor, despite local-council objections.

She wound down interventionist regional policy and overrode councils' objections to allow, for instance, growth to spread eastwards from the City of London to Canary Wharf and beyond.Foreigners have joined the latter-day Whittingtons.

I know the community council wrote objections to it, because I was still clerk then".

It is wrong to say that the council received objections to our development "yet granted it permission" anyway.

She was given permission for the £250,000 project by City of Edinburgh council despite objections from several neighbours who were already upset by other renovations around her home.

Unfortunately, the project has been rumbling on for over a decade and has come up against planning problems from the council and objections from local residents.

He filed suit, claiming that he had been pressured to remove a disfavored minority partner from the winning lottery consortium because of council members' objections, and that he resisted that pressure.

The author of the Harry Potter series was given permission by City of Edinburgh council despite objections from several neighbours who are already upset by other renovations and building work around her home.

Quek's ambition to build a casino division within Guoco's existing Thistle hotels business in the UK had largely been thwarted by local council licensing objections, forcing him to look at acquiring an existing casino operator.