Sentence examples for massive council from inspiring English sources

He also heads a massive council that oversees all economic and development issues.

Beginning my career in a comprehensive school abutting a massive council estate in south-west London, I learned this fast, and was forced to think seriously about how I was going to stop myself burning out.

She told the Times "massive" council cuts would make it harder for people to do more in their communities.

She said the size of Birmingham's single "massive" council, surrounded by much smaller unitary bodies, made it problematic to join them all together in the same way Manchester did 40 years ago.

However, massive cuts to council budgets have prompted councils in some areas – including Stockton, Darlington and Wrexham – to cut subsidies altogether.

Equally dubious is the pledge to extend Right to Buy to around 800,000 housing association tenants by giving them the same massive discounts as council tenants.

For instance, after years of neglect by Tory and New Labour governments, there is a desperate need for a massive programme of council house building.

At the time he produced his report there was strict rent control in the private sector, and Britain was about to embark on a massive programme of council house building.

Dame Elisabeth Hoodless told The Times on Monday that "massive" cuts to council spending would make it harder for people to do more in their communities.

But the "right-to-buy" phenomenon, started by Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government in 1979, led to a massive depletion in council housing stock, with more than two million tenants taking advantage of the scheme.

The "right-to-buy" phenomenon had led, as some on the left had predicted, to a massive depletion in council housing stock - made worse by the refusal of successive governments to allow local authorities to spend the windfall they received from council house sales on building new ones.