sentences:  Some associations meet to address one specific issue (and quite often some major and controversial local issue is the stimulus to form an association), while others address a wider spectrum of matters.Some residents' associations decide to run candidates for local office to increase their leverage, such as the Residents Associations of Epsom and Ewell which has controlled the local authority since the 1930s, while others decide to remain as advocacy or action groups independent of any political process.While generally eschewing national party politics, since the reform of UK electoral law in 2000 several British residents' associations have been obliged to register as locality-based political parties to enable them to participate in local elections for borough and county councils.