{"id":28728,"date":"2019-03-13T11:01:52","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T11:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=28728"},"modified":"2019-03-13T11:14:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T11:14:16","slug":"perry-barr-athletes-village-to-deliver-only-58-family-council-houses-after-commonwealth-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/13\/perry-barr-athletes-village-to-deliver-only-58-family-council-houses-after-commonwealth-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Perry Barr Athletes village to deliver only 58 ‘family council houses’ after Commonwealth Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

An extensive 1,414-property athletes village being built for the Commonwealth Games will provide just 58 affordable houses\u00a0for desperate Birmingham families. Criticism of scheme as 12,500 people on housing waiting list at Birmingham City Council.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The huge\u00a0Perry Barr development\u00a0will house 6,500 of the world\u2019s finest sportsmen and women, alongside officials taking part in the 2022 spectacular.<\/p>\n

Perry\u00a0Barr MP\u00a0Khalid Mahmood\u00a0also criticised the scheme.<\/p>\n

He said: “I don’t believe there is going to be enough affordable housing, not least given the huge public funding that’s going into it.<\/p>\n

“They wouldn’t allow any other development company to do this. But because it’s the city council themselves, they are allowing themselves all sorts of elasticity to do what they want to.<\/p>\n

“And I’m also particularly concerned about people renting apartments because if you have too many single occupancy dwellings, you tend to have young people or old people.<\/p>\n

“Who are the people who will be able to buy in that environment?<\/p>\n

“I’m asking that many of the flats they’re going to build to be converted into family homes, there are too many flats. The technology’s there to be able to do that.<\/p>\n

“I think it’s essential that we look again at what’s being planned here, and have a different structure that will be better able to accommodate families, and those who need social housing.”<\/p>\n

Civic leaders had spoken proudly of the\u00a0Perry Barr redevelopment\u00a0after\u00a0housing\u00a0plans were approved for the site on the former Birmingham City University campus last year.<\/p>\n

Mayor Andy Street talked about Perry Barr being a \u201cgame changer for the region with a lasting\u00a0housing\u00a0and regeneration legacy.<\/p>\n

New estates built by private developers typically include a standard\u00a0 25 per cent\u00a0social\u00a0housing, and Birmingham City Council usually has 35 per cent.<\/p>\n

Birmingham City Council says the\u00a0Perry Barr scheme\u00a0offers 22 per cent affordable and\u00a0social\u00a0housing\u00a0– but that includes the retirement village.<\/p>\n

Yet just 58 properties will be three or four bedroom houses – family homes – for\u00a0social\u00a0rent.<\/p>\n

Yet the Perry Barr development has just 22 per cent affordable homes ratio, with the rest being sold off by home builders for potentially huge profits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An extensive 1,414-property athletes village being built for the Commonwealth Games will provide just 58 affordable houses\u00a0for desperate Birmingham families. Criticism of scheme as 12,500 people on housing waiting list at Birmingham City Council. The huge\u00a0Perry Barr development\u00a0will house 6,500 of the world\u2019s finest sportsmen and women, alongside officials taking part in the 2022 spectacular. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,37,3,45,112],"tags":[772,419,1473,2044,2045],"class_list":["post-28728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-local-news","category-news","category-property","category-top-stories","tag-birmingham-city-council","tag-commonwealth-games","tag-mayor-andy-street","tag-perry-barr","tag-perry-barr-athletes-village"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}