Sentence examples for councils ability from inspiring English sources

Unfortunately, social care shows that local councils' ability to deliver this is far from certain.

The government wants to restrict councils' ability to use licensing schemes for landlords.

Yet councils' ability to require housebuilders to include some affordable rented housing in new developments will go if the housing and planning bill becomes law.

The decimation of Britain's social housing, combined with the swingeing central government cuts to local authority funding has pushed councils' ability to provide temporary accommodation to breaking point.

Instead, higher rates of unemployment are down to the sharp decrease in council housing stock caused by the right to buy and restrictions on councils' ability to build their own homes.

In the last parliament Michael Gove, while education secretary, imposed restrictions on councils' ability to force academies to expand, arguing that headteachers should be free to run their schools as they wished.

"This will limit councils' abilities to deal with empty homes.

"The Housing Minister Brandon Lewis' announcement strangles councils' abilities to tailor the scheme to local needs.

Freedom without resources isn't much to crow about, but councils' new ability to borrow to finance new brownfield development is good policy.

They would also get a guaranteed right to vote on large increases in council tax a stipulation that may render councils' proposed ability to raise it largely notional.In this section Tough justice Thanks, Gordon Point of no return?

"Giving councils the ability to make a real impact to the health of local people was a positive step, but local government can only continue its important work such as reducing smoking or excessive drinking and tackling obesity if we are adequately resourced to do so.