The revised approach to local governance is narrow, functional and shorn of ambition; the council's newly shrivelled remit limited to the very letter of its statutory duties on housing, waste management, planning, leisure and recreation, and environmental health.
He added: "There needs to be a single commissioning budget so we can make the link between health and education, planning, leisure, and crucially health and housing... Somewhere along the line, that link got broken and we need to get it back again".
For instance, rather than take the train to work as she normally does, Rachel takes her car on those days when she has planned leisure activities in Lausanne after work.
The district council collects council tax, provides services such as building regulations and local planning, leisure and tourism, handles issues strategic to the district, and many other services.
The borough council is a non-metropolitan district, responsible for housing, planning, leisure and recreation, waste collection, environmental health and revenue collection.
By day, Magaluf's main strip was a thing of indeterminate drabness - a concrete mistake of everlasting inertia, of planned leisure, where the only thing that registered in the blankness where small coincidences in time: some leftover sick, a sad collection of greasy caff chairs, a forgotten jacket, drinks umbrellas blowing down the hill.
On the one hand, the presence of certain concerns may amplify negative responses to symptom measures; for example, people concerned about interpersonal relationships, special plans, leisure activities or education reported heighten levels of fatigue.
Planning, leisure-time physical activity, and coping self-efficacy in persons with spinal cord injury: a randomized controlled trial.
We need to plan for leisure — perhaps by doing one small thing every day, identifying long- and short-term leisure goals, putting enjoyable activities on the calendar — like we do other aspects of life.
