Sentences with phrase «on a council estate in»

Rita, Sue and Bob too is a British cult classic about a guy who sleeps with babysitters on a council estate in Bradford, and that was my introduction.

Grow up on a council estate in Keighley and you won't.

Born in London, he grew up on a council estate in Northampton.

«I'm a fighter, someone who is ready to work their socks off» says Mr Khan, who grew up as the son of a bus driver on a council estate in the same Tooting constituency where he has served as MP since 2005.

The political class Adam [Afriyie] has got a very compelling story in many ways, he's self - made, was brought up on a council estate in Peckham, a guy of colour, very successful businessman and in many ways... If you look at David Cameron, Nick Clegg, Ed Miliband, George Osborne, Ed Balls, they're all people who have essentially spent their entire working life in politics, almost all of them have been PPE or equivalent graduates from Oxford or Cambridge.

«I was born on a council estate in Cheshire, as the youngest of four children.

Davis, 67, is not a traditional Tory, having begun his life with a single mother in Yorkshire and growing up on a council estate in south London.

A former marketing consultant, Mr Crabb's background - he grew up on a council estate in Haverfordwest, raised by a single mother - contrasts with the more privileged upbringings of others on the Conservative front bench.

I started painting again when I was living on a council estate in south - east London and wanted to tell the stories that people tell each other about living in a place like that: stories that become urban myths.

«I live on a council estate in Birmingham UK.

Not exact matches

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Mr. Albano is on the Commercial Real Estate Finance Council's Board of Governors, is the Chair of the CREFC Portfolio Lenders Bank Forum, serves as a co-Chair of a leading Commercial Real Estate Political Action Committee and is actively involved in numerous other industry organizations.

It takes place in a council housing office or a warehouse tucked away on some industrial estate.

My mum grew up in a council flat on the Elmington Estate, a stone's throw from the British Queen.

You can see the negative effects of gentrification in traditionally working class areas of London such as Hackney, where the demolition of estates to make way for new private housing complexes has led to some local residents on low incomes being relocated by the council to other parts of the country, away from their families and support networks.

In January 2014, Syracuse University, Mahoney, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, real estate developers and other insiders were negotiating behind the scenes to build a $ 500 million stadium on a vacant lot near downtown Syracuse - the heart of the 4th council district.

Ms. Glen told the Council's Committee on Housing that several independent studies, including those done by Columbia University and the Citizens Budget Commission, showed that mandating real estate interests receiving the tax deduction to pay union rates would result in 30 percent fewer affordable units getting built.

In June 2015, Albany approved the renewal of 421a, on the condition that the Real Estate Board of New York and the Building and Construction Trades Council (BCTC) reach an agreement on prevailing wages to construction workers.

Davis was brought up on Aboyne Estate, a council estate in Tooting, South West LEstate, a council estate in Tooting, South West Lestate in Tooting, South West London.

A quick anecdote; I lived and grew up on an undesirable council estate in NE England - the drug dealer on the corner claiming incapacity benefit rankled much more with my father than when the chap down the street had a lottery win.

Khan wrote in the Mirror this year of the «real sense» of community on his council estate.

In their maiden speeches, Jackie Doyle - Price and Stuart Andrew explain how growing up on council estates informed their political outllook

Thatcher's socially mobile children are arriving in Parliament Reading through the profiles of the new candidates, there are a surprising number talking about their «non-traditional Tory background» and of being inspired by Margaret Thatcher as they grew up on council estates and watched their parents buy their council houses in the 1980s.

Community activist Carlina Rivera has raised both the most money overall and the most money from the real estate sector in the race for District 2 on the City Council, which covers the East Village and Alphabet City in Manhattan.

In a bid to make it easier for the long - term unemployed to find work, Ms Flint proposed opening job centres on council estates, arguing this made more sense than forcing people to travel «miles» to access services.

When canvassing in Slough for the 1983 election he recalled: «The people on this estate felt that Thatcher had given them an opportunity to buy their own council houses.

In his victory speech, Mr Khan referred to his humble origins on a council estate and said he had never imagined that «someone like me could be elected as mayor of London,» promising to be a mayor «for all Londoners».

At 6:30 p.m., activists participate in a discussion on the upcoming NYC Council speaker's race, the influence of money on elected officials and the impact on local communities of legislation and policies favorable to the real estate industry, LaGuardia Community College, 31 - 10 Thomson Ave., Room E242, Queens.

«Is there development work going on in the 774 constitutionally - recognised local government councils, which have been merely appropriated as private estates of some governors?

The Reverend Brooke Newell, with the New York State Council of Churches, says Cuomo's plan focuses too heavily on tax cuts that benefit the wealthy, including reductions in the estate tax, and not enough on the working poor and the needy.

Then director of The Metropolitan Council on Housing, he needed a way to get regular New Yorkers interested in the backroom dealing that he saw as having continually allowed the real estate industry power to weaken rent laws every time they were up for renewal.

«Has Common Council commissioned a study to project the impact on residential real estate values in the city of Kingston?»

Jobs For New York, the real estate - backed Super PAC that dropped $ 7 million on NYC Council races this year, is eying the 2014 elections in the state Legislature.

The Council opposed the floor price, and the Real Estate Board of New York had argued it would have a negative impact on theater owners in market downturns.

Tellingly, race relations here caused problems for Labour in the last election too, when it was claimed a raid on 25 suspected illegal immigrants on a council estate inundated by Africans had been postponed to avoid embarrassing Tony Blair.

Facing City Council speaker Christine Quinn, who was well respected in the real estate industry and considered Bloomberg's heir - apparent, de Blasio took his «tale of two cities» platform and positioned himself as a populist willing to take on income inequality.

Disaffected council estate areas that have been really run down, we really need to be going in and not lecturing them on what is good for them but actually listening to them,» she said.

The Real Estate Board of New York and the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York have reached an agreement to revive the 421a tax exemption in New York City, ending a 10 - month stalemate that put a damper on the city's investment sales market and stalled several major projects.

My mum was born on the largest council estate in Europe and was one of twelve children.

Thornberry may have been brought up on in penury on a council estate, but that can not excuse her crass insensitivity, political stupidity and arrogant, patronising contempt for the working class.

At the southern end of the constituency is the large council estate of New Addington, a somewhat isolated development on the very edge of London that that has traditionally provided Labour with the core of their support in this seat, although in the most recent council elections they saw some support drifitng to the BNP.

Greenfield, chairman of the City Council's Committee on Land Use, has $ 308,641.71 in a campaign account called «GreenfieldNY,» most of which came from real estate companies, the New York Observer reported.

Albanese, a former City Council member, went on the attack almost immediately and jabbed at de Blasio throughout, criticizing the mayor's inability to reign in homelessness, his ties to real estate interests, his «ineffective» affordable housing policy, his nonchalance towards the city's subway crisis and his «politicizing» of the police.

At the southern end of the constituency is the large council estate of New Addington, a somewhat isolated development on the very edge of London that that has traditionally provided Labour with the core of their support in this seat.

Recent real - estate data show a decrease in foreclosures in the greater Milwaukee area, yet members of the Milwaukee Common Council are not taking the good news as reason to rest on their laurels.

Garodnick, who grew up on the East Side and is vying for the position of City Council Speaker, has questioned the rezoning proposal's impact on transportation and public spaces, despite mounting pressure from the real estate industry to fall in line with the plans.

Alas, she discovers that her husband has been having an affair and leaves him to move in with her estranged but welcoming sister Bif (Imrie) on a North London council estate.

Two and a half years after the release of its Bond - spoofing forerunner, Vaughn has returned a sequel, in which the first film's council - estate outcast turned elite secret agent Eggsy (Taron Egerton) takes on an international drugs ring.

Edinburgh International Film Festival There's a slightly condescending tendency among many critics to brand almost any British film set on a working - class council estate as «miserablist» simply by virtue of the aesthetics of its setting, despite the fact that many thousands of people live functional, three - dimensional lives in precisely such conditions.

In a passage starting on p. 160, Ravitch presents the involvement of New York hedge - fund managers in charter schools at the beginning of a messy discussion of colocation of charter schools in New York City, the ties between charter schools and tax credits, similar ties with investment - based visas, real - estate operations with charter - school education as a loss leader, and the ideology of profit - motivated charter - school model laws pushed by the American Legislative Exchange CounciIn a passage starting on p. 160, Ravitch presents the involvement of New York hedge - fund managers in charter schools at the beginning of a messy discussion of colocation of charter schools in New York City, the ties between charter schools and tax credits, similar ties with investment - based visas, real - estate operations with charter - school education as a loss leader, and the ideology of profit - motivated charter - school model laws pushed by the American Legislative Exchange Counciin charter schools at the beginning of a messy discussion of colocation of charter schools in New York City, the ties between charter schools and tax credits, similar ties with investment - based visas, real - estate operations with charter - school education as a loss leader, and the ideology of profit - motivated charter - school model laws pushed by the American Legislative Exchange Counciin New York City, the ties between charter schools and tax credits, similar ties with investment - based visas, real - estate operations with charter - school education as a loss leader, and the ideology of profit - motivated charter - school model laws pushed by the American Legislative Exchange Council.