Wednesday, 16 May 2012

234 homes for Birmingham

13/08/2010 | By Rhiannon Bury

Birmingham Council will build 234 new homes after securing funding from the Homes and Communities Agency through the £53 million Public Land Programme after donating 8.1 acres of its own land.

The HCA will provide £4.7 million of investment to deliver the plans across seven sites, with construction work set to begin in late 2010 and homes ready for occupation by spring 2012.

Around two-thirds of the homes will be for outright sale on the open market, with the remaining 83 homes being rented out by the council. The homes will be built in Sheldon, Bartley Green, Handsworth, Longbridge and Tyburn.

These homes are in addition to 319 new homes being delivered by the Birmingham Municipal Housing Trust, as part of the council’s current £32 million house building programme.

All 234 properties will achieve level 4 of the code for sustainable homes.

John Lines, cabinet member for housing at Birmingham Council, said: ‘This scheme is another way that we have supported the private sector to start building again, and we have not borrowed a penny to do it.

‘I’m delighted that by working together with private developers and the HCA, we have got our people the best deal - hundreds of family homes.’

As part of the council’s drive to address worklessness, apprenticeship opportunities in the construction industry will be available as part of the house building programme. Young people will be able to develop new skills with on-the-job training.

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