Sentences with phrase «of local neighbourhoods»

«The situation is under control and officers, including safer schools officers and members of the local neighbourhood policing team, are currently at the school and are liaising closely with staff.

Over time, this has a significant effect on the composition of the local neighbourhood and makes the area less affordable for poorer families.

The report looked at the difference between the proportion of disadvantaged pupils in a school's intake and that of its local neighbourhood to establish how socially selective it is.

Our hotel showcases the best of the local neighbourhood as well as acting as the perfect base to explore it.»

A team of four designers, Julian Bond, Sigrid Bylander, Lucy Paton and Benedetta Rogers won the competition with a proposal that drew its inspiration «from the architecture of the local neighbourhood, defined by streets of Victorian terrace houses with their imposing brick facades and generous sash windows,» yet positioned itself in the cycle of architectural and economic change:

The question of whether a party's use of its property amounts to a nuisance will depend to a large extent upon the nature and character of the local neighbourhood.

The goal is to create a mixture of tenants that serve the needs of the local neighbourhood and surroundings, but which also each have a distinctive and unique product offering — so that no two tenants or offerings are the same.

Not exact matches

Local amenities like restaurants are one of the things lacking within the boundaries of this neighbourhoods, but they are still within walking distance.

This is a consequence of local authority zonings as much as anything, which effectively banish neighbourhood restaurants from a residential setting.

While the existing Kaiba flagship locations will continue as a more globalised beer experience — with draught, bottles and a full food menu — the pilot neighbourhood local focuses on local craft beers and making the sector «approachable and accessible», said Ibrahim - Lecomte, adding that it will be the first of many in Shanghai.

A number of different financial services were established to establish a network of producers and consumers in the neighbourhood, with the aim of promoting an «economic citizenship» with the potential of generating prosperity at the local level under the conrol of the inhabitants of the area.

The complementary currency itself has declined in importance over the period while levels of overall consumption of goods and services have increased (although it is unclear whether the recent digitisation is to change this) A detailed study18 of the usage and circulation of the Palma found that around half of its usage was accounted for by just 6 economic actors in addition to the Banco Palmas itself: four local stores selling basic consumer items, the neighbourhood petrol station, and a party and décor shop.

What makes matters worse in Vancouver is that many of the older neighbourhoods have been shielded from the demands of densification by local politicians on the municipal level.

Travel agents advertise flights to Mumbai and the Emirates, the Union Bank of India maintains a local branch and the neighbourhood postal outlet flogs a «one - of - a-kind diamond postage stamp.»

It's a result of rising affluence and safety, and while we're in favour of both, the first does slowly kill off the small, personal, local things that give a neighbourhood its character, and drive out the personalities that give it personality.

There is no local tradition or historical evidence connecting Thomas with the Parthian empire proper; but it is very probable that Thomas worked in Basra and its neighbourhood on his way to India and the first contact of the Indian church was with the church in Basra (Fais), the name of Thomas linking them together.

We're not a fancy, high - priced boutique — we're aiming to be your local go - to shop, and thanks to the internet, we think of ourselves as being right in your neighbourhood.

Diaz brothers have so many other things to them, two vegeterian triathletes who came up from the lowest of the lows, nothing to eat at home, in a rough neighbourhood saying no to all the drugs, later on to all the roids, serving their community, teaching kids,... they have been awarded many times by their local authorities and all... but all UFC wants people to think of a Nate Diaz is a mexican gangster who smokes weed and does not give a damn...

There are also a ton of outdoor rinks at local neighbourhoods around Waterloo.

For the last few years I have served as the chair of my local safer neighbourhood ward panel, which sets the priorities for local policing.

The communities secretary announced schemes to allow neighbourhood groups a degree of control in local planning decisions and signify a shift towards the merging of service provision among neighbouring councils.

«Rather than poorly serviced mono - estates bolted - on to market towns, we must plan for new neighbourhoods and community extensions which ensure that the housing provided offers a variety of tenure, with the provision of live / works spaces and local services, all in sustainable communities where people want to live and work,» comments Town and County Planning Association (TCPA) senior policy officer, Fiona Mannion.

On the Left, one hears more and more about the idea of a «good society» supposed to revitalize the «conservative» roots of Labour — a focus on local communities and identities, on a common national identity, family and work, and neighbourhood.

At the lowest level of municipal government, the city is still managed by its medieval patchwork of contrade, neighbourhood - based collectives that raise money to be spent on local projects, including the lavish feasts that run for days after a contrada's horse has won the Palio.

After Labour's 1997 general election win, she was appointed minister for local government and housing at the Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions, and had special responsibility for neighbourhood renewal.

The politicians seem to be unable to move away from grand gestures which they think will impress the electorate rather than consider the fundamentals of what makes the kind of education system that the public wants - good local schools in every neighbourhood.

These are expected to include measures to give neighbourhoods control over local planning decisions and reducing local authorities» reliance on grants from central government - which are being cut back dramatically as a result of the spending review.

Ms Smith will be taking questions as part of her remit as Home Secretary with a focus on the Border Agency and the neighbourhood policing teams operating in local areas.

We used that decision - making power to deliver on promises we had made to the electors: rapid demographic change had led to a shortage of local primary school places, so in the last four years we used the Council's resources to expand local primary schools to create twice as many; concerns about a scruffy and run down high street were addressed by comprehensive neighbourhood renewal; and pressure on household budgets was relieved by freezing the council tax and the cost of resident's parking permits.

They go to a public place in their neighbourhood, and for most of them, especially in inner city constituencies, voting may be their only cause to visit their local school or community centre.

We are achieving it through decentralisation — as in the Localism Act, whose provisions enabling local communities to take over the running of local services and decide their neighbourhood plan come into effect in the next few weeks.

«We have seen real progress with communities across the country making full use of the powers we have put in place with councils, police, courts and local people working in partnership to make neighbourhoods safer and better places to live,» Tony Blair said.

They demonstrate that neighbourhoods in the catchment of schools with more grade inflation experience a more pronounced increase in the number of grocery shops, restaurants and coffeehouses surrounding schools, most likely because local retailers respond to the arrival of richer homeowners.

his NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the iridescent interior of one of the most active galaxies in our local neighbourhood — NGC 1569, a small galaxy located about eleven million light - years away in the constellation of Camelopardalis (The Giraffe)(Credit: ESA / Hubble & NASA, Aloisi, Ford)

To understand the selection mechanism behind mutations, network - based studies were used to estimate the importance of a mutated protein compared to non-mutated ones in signalling and protein — protein interaction networks.10, 11,12,13 Proteins mutated in cancer were found having a high number of interacting partners (i.e., a high degree of connectivity), which indicates high local importance.10 Mutated proteins are also often found in the centre of the network, in key global positions, as quantified by the number of shortest paths passing through them if all proteins are connected with each other (i.e., they have high betweenness centrality; hereafter called betweenness).11, 12 Mutated proteins also have high clustering coefficients, which means their neighbours are also neighbours of each other.10, 13 Moreover, neighbourhood analysis of mutated proteins have been previously successfully used to predict novel cancer - related genes.14, 15 However, to the best of our knowledge, no study has concentrated particularly on the topological importance of first neighbours of mutated proteins in cancer, and their usefulness as drug targets themselves.

Tierd of looking for that special person in your local neighbourhood?

In The Drop, a loose adaptation of the Dennis Lehane short story «Animal Rescue», Gandolfini plays surly cousin Marv, who together with Tom Hardy's reticent lunkhead, Bob, runs a «drop bar» — so called because it's where various local criminals stash their dirty loot — in one of Brooklyn's toughest neighbourhoods.

There is a pack of zombies roaming the neighbourhood and as a local homeowner, you must use the power of your garden (and the help of Crazy Dave) to repel the undead horde.

TOPICS: 1: Identity and culture 1: Me, my family and friends 2: Technology in everyday life 3: Free - time activities 4: Customs and festivals in French - speaking countries / communities 2: Local, national, international and global areas of interest 1: Home, town, neighbourhood and region 2: Social issues 3: Global issues 4: Travel and tourism 3: Current and future study and employment 1: My studies 2: Life at school / college 3: Education post-16 4: Jobs, career choices and ambitions Source for the vocab list: http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/resources/french/specifications/AQA-8658-SP-2016.PDF

The local neighbourhood policing units support the drug programme by incorporating many different methods, such as officers including the campus sites on their beat routes and the delivery of bespoke drug misuse education talks.

The research compared the social make - up of schools with their local areas and identified schools with the greatest difference between rates of free school meal (FSM) pupils and in their surrounding neighbourhoods.

After an orientation day spent exploring national landmarks, local markets and impoverished neighbourhoods, I was thrown into a teaching position and given a few of my own classes.

Councillor Feryal Demirci, cabinet member for neighbourhoods, transport and parks, said: «I'm delighted that the majority of parents and local residents agree with our proposal to close Crondall Street during school pick ‑ up and drop ‑ off times.The vast majority of children in Hackney walk or cycle to school, but too many children still make the journey by car.»

And more than two - thirds of free school heads say they are having a positive impact on schools in their local area - driving up standards and ensuring more parents have a great school in their neighbourhood.

«The original purpose of faith schools was also to fulfil the demands of their faith by providing for the local neighbourhood and this objective may have become too secondary.»

Not only is she newsletter editor for the ALCS, she's also non-fiction editor for The Bookseller (the trade paper of the British book trade), chair of literary festival events, book award judge, and a respected author — and she still finds time to volunteer in the local community, choreographing a fabulous Book Week for one lucky primary school in the neighbourhood.

If you're the kind of person who likes joining local social groups, you might look out for a writers» group in your neighbourhood — though on the other hand these can be offputting, as not all of them are very encouraging!

Call the city to verify taxes, for example, and talk to the local police station to get an overview of the neighbourhood crime rates.

For instance, about 60 % of buyers surveyed wished they'd done better research on the local schools, property taxes, commuting distances, neighbourhood amenities, neighbours and home insurance costs.

There are no lawyers explaining the difference between commercial and residential units; there are no mortgage brokers on hand to teach attendees about the rules and regulations about investment property financing; there's not even a real estate agent to discuss the intricacies of the local market, never mind details about specific types of housing or ideal neighbourhoods.