Sentences with phrase «prevent local councils»

Will a Victorian statute prevent local councils selling off our museums & libraries to make ends meet?

Freud did not expand on his thinking but some housing experts have predicted the government may need to change the definition of homelessness to prevent local councils having to take responsibility for housing benefit recipients unable to pay private sector rents as their housing benefit is cut.

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And because staff cuts prevent papers from covering important local issues — or, sometimes, even just the basics, like city council meetings and sporting events — circulation drops further, making them irrelevant and unattractive to other buyers.

Ealing Council has been exploring a range of options on how to prevent «intimidation, harassment and distress» for women using the Marie Stopes clinic on Mattock Lane following a petition set up by local women.

The local Hammersmith & Fulham Council have passed a resolution that will prevent an injunction brought by the local resident blocking the plans.

Anger is growing in Westminster as a local authority continues to drag its feet and prevent its council meetings from being filmed.

He also pointed to new city laws, sponsored by local City Council member Margaret Chin, meant to prevent future Rivington House - like fiascos.

He spoke of lifting the borrowing cap that constrains local authorities and prevents them from building a new generation of council housing.

The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) is to give councils # 60m from the discretionary housing allowance and a further # 10m from the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG), to prevent poorer families being priced out of London.

And the chairman of the Local Government Association's children and young people board, Councillor David Simmonds, called for «bureaucratic barrier «s which he said had prevented councils from intervening for a long time, «swept away».

Urgent action is needed to prevent a shortage of secondary school places in a third of local authorities in England within five years, councils say.

Santa Barbara Adventure Company supports our local environmental organizations such as the Environmental Defense Center, Santa Barbara Channelkeeper and the Community Environment Council in their heroic efforts to monitor, contain, and clean the spill, as well as prevent future oil developments.

The local council, who had ordered him to remove cement rendering on the wall of his house, prevented him from doing so once the mural appeared.

Three years and two city council resolutions later, new local policies prevent any new fossil fuel facilities and are accelerating a just transition to social, clean energy.

Councils would be allowed to revise their current local plans to protect green belt land and prevent the imposition of eco-towns against local wishes.