I went to the council meeting with the _______________ of complaining about the new housing development, but I wasn’t given the chance to speak.

A lot of elderly people are complaining that their social life has suffered since the local community __________ shut down.

The outgoing mayor seemed ___________ on leaving his mark on the town, even suggesting that the main square should be named after him.

My tennis trophies take ___________ of place on my bookshelf. If anyone moves them, I get quite upset!

You should try to involve yourself in community ____________ as much as possible, otherwise you’ll always be treated as an outsider.

Whenever neighbours in my area have a dispute, the others try to arrange a meeting to help them solve it, usually on ____________ ground, like a local café.

There’s a ___________ and place for criticising the way the council operates, and this is definitely not it!

One of the reasons I like my neighbourhood so much is because of its wonderful ___________ of community.

I’m tired of living at home with my parents. Sometime in the next year or so I’d like to move out and get a ___________ of my own.

The project started off slowly and was very disorganised, but gradually things began to ___________ into place.

We place great ____________ on conservation issues in the town, especially with regard to some of the older buildings in the town’s historic centre.

The council have placed a number of ______________ on parking in town. For example, only residents are allowed to park on the streets.

When shop windows on the High Street were broken, angry shopkeepers unfairly placed the ___________ on young people from the local council estate.