Sentence examples for make councils from inspiring English sources

That would make councils more accountable to the people they serve, and encourage the accidental revolution that is already under way.

David Cameron has said a Conservative government would make councils go "house-to-house, street-to-street" to identify areas most in need of energy-efficiency improvements.

A host of reforms in planning, council housing, homebuilding, benefits and more are designed to make councils masters of their own fate rather than passive recipients of central-government largesse.

The DfT insists it takes the matter seriously and is trying to make councils prepare proper maintenance plans (although we may not know if they are successful for a decade).

Here's what Sir Robin Wales would do: only sell council houses at market price and use all the money for new homes; make councils enforce the law against landlords, paid for by keeping court fines.

To make councils' duty to co-operate function effectively there needs to be a worse alternative for those authorities that see no democratic or financial benefit to allowing new development.

"That doesn't sound like the sort of return that would make council accommodation attractive".

I despair at the government wanting to make council rents less secure.

Waste vehicles are powered by LNG gas and there is a big push to make council cars more efficient.

Preparatory work to make council tax fair should start now if changes are to be introduced after local authorities are merged, a former Welsh government adviser has said.

Alex Hilton, director of campaigning group Generation Rent, says this makes councils less willing to prosecute landlords.