Sentence examples for programme of council from inspiring English sources

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.

It is understood Reynolds was not committing Labour to an expensive new programme of council house-building, but was instead highlighting the issue's importance and saying that a new programme should be a priority if the public finances permit.

The result was a massive programme of council house building.

After the First World War modernism and the office block began to dominate building in the major cities and attempts began to improve the quality of urban housing for the poor, resulted in a massive programme of council house building.

David Butler London Rather than tweaking legislation to prevent private landlords and letting agents from making obscene amounts of money from rental properties (Report, 23 November), surely the only genuine solution is to ditch the dogma and return to a national programme of building council housing.

I work for a local council, and I was unimpressed and unconvinced by the programme's depictions of council staff wasting time, the lack of respect for the public and unfathomable management-speak.

"Once again we are able to freeze the council tax for the sixth year in a row and continue to deliver a significant but sustainable programme of transformation of council services".

Councillors have also agreed a spending programme of £81m on council housing.

This swing against the Tories was partly due to the controversial One Barnet programme, in which the majority of council services are being outsourced to private firms in the largest outsourcing of services in local government history.

Social housing has also been sold off under the Right to Buy programme, with an estimated 40 per cent of council flats sold under the scheme now rented out by private landlords across the UK, according to research published earlier this year by Inside Housing magazine.