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planned housing village at perry barr

Astoness

Astoness

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this time at the cost of the speedway venue at perry barr....i find it incredible that yet more housing is going to built while the hundreds of apartments opposite the speedway still lie empty over 2 years since completed...

www.bbc.co.uk

Birmingham Brummies speedway team to close doors at season's end

Co-owner Nigel Tolley says this will be the last year of speedway in Birmingham.
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Astoness said:
this time at the cost of the speedway venue at perry barr....i find it incredible that yet more housing is going to built while the hundreds of apartments opposite the speedway still lie empty over 2 years since completed...

www.bbc.co.uk

Birmingham Brummies speedway team to close doors at season's end

Co-owner Nigel Tolley says this will be the last year of speedway in Birmingham.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
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Lyn, you are absolutely right! It seems like the inmates are running the asylum as far as housing development is concerned. Is the housing government funded or privately funded?
 
Richard Dye said:
Lyn, you are absolutely right! It seems like the inmates are running the asylum as far as housing development is concerned. Is the housing government funded or privately funded?
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richard i am beginning to wonder if i am missing something as i just dont get it....i dont know if this latest venture is privately or government funded but either way the fact still remains that the apartments opposite have stood empty for over 2 years..it just seems like its throwing good money after bad here

lyn
 
Astoness said:
richard i am beginning to wonder if i am missing something as i just dont get it....i dont know if this latest venture is privately or government funded but either way the fact still remains that the apartments opposite have stood empty for over 2 years..it just seems like its throwing good money after bad here

lyn
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Just think of it this way: someone has been paying for those empty apartments for two years, carrying the insurance (I hope) maintenance, heating etc. sounds like a government funded deal to me and the person build at the dirt track knows something we don’t or is very foolish!
 
And Jan 2025 from Birmingham Live…

‘And two more plots, 7 and 8, which both face the bus-only lane on Aldridge Road, and feature some 487 apartments, have been sold to Legal & General Affordable Homes last month for a 'a mix of rent and shared ownership'. Asked how much the council received for the sales, a spokesman said 'it is commercially sensitive…”
 
Pedrocut said:
And Jan 2025 from Birmingham Live…

‘And two more plots, 7 and 8, which both face the bus-only lane on Aldridge Road, and feature some 487 apartments, have been sold to Legal & General Affordable Homes last month for a 'a mix of rent and shared ownership'. Asked how much the council received for the sales, a spokesman said 'it is commercially sensitive…”
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There needs to be an audit of that transaction. The populace deserves to know what and how their taxes are being spent!
 
Richard Dye said:
Then why are building permits being issued for more houses?
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we cant get too political and i dont want to blow ones own trumpet but when the plans were published for the so called olympic village some of us said it would be yet another white elephant..this has proved to be true..my point about this is that there are so many genuine people out there desperate for housing and yet so many new builds lie empty so will this new venture end up the same...time will tell..it just makes no sense to me

lyn
 
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