Tuesday, 22 May 2012

Birmingham: we’ll take the whole £100m

01/05/2009 | By Martin Hilditch, Emily Rogers

The race to build the next generation of council housing began in earnest this week as England’s largest local authority landlord said it would bid for the entire £100 million pot made available in last week’s Budget.

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