Sentence examples for village developments from inspiring English sources

This year the council saw an influx of wealthy buyers snap up luxury flats in Olympic village developments – and became the London borough which recorded the fastest rising house prices in the capital.

One scheme The Villages in Florida, a network of "village" developments housing 115,000 over-55s linked by a 90-mile network of car-free golf-cart roadways – and offers a life of restaurants, bars, cinemas and sports.

However, the small footprint (required land area) of these compact designs offers important opportunities for retrofitting OWTs on small lots, in shoreline developments where land is at a premium and where communities wish to foster and sustain compact, village developments that reflect "smart growth" strategies.

In the short term, new policies will mean slightly higher build costs for new homes – both for land and construction – but in the long term it should reduce some of the local nimby resistance to well-designed village developments, while providing a much-needed supply of real affordable homes.

Laingpatehi village, for example, received a significant increase in its annual budget for village development (ADD Alokasi Dana Desa, Village allocation funds) from IDR 25 million in 2010 (USD 2,200) to almost IDR 300 million in 2013 (USD 27,200) (Pemerintah Kecamatan Tagulandang 2013).

Still, officials at the village development agency have hopes for its plan.

But he is better known to most Thais as a lifelong promoter of village development.

Local government officials are slow and corrupt, making village development difficult, she says.

Tight controls have stalled village development projects meant to employ the former insurgents in their communities.

The Athletes' Village development – to be known as East Village after the Games – will include more than 1,300 affordable homes.

Some candidates are buying votes with trips to the beach, scholarships, village development projects or temple donations with strings attached.