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'Perry Barr businesses deserve better'

Hundreds of homes built for the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham are to be sold off in a deal forecast to cost taxpayers more than £300m.

The athlete’s village, in Perry Barr, was built by the city council to host athletes during the Games in 2022.

But the development was delayed due to coronavirus and athletes were housed in student accommodation instead with the 968 completed apartments sitting empty since they were completed in April 2023.

A council report, external showed £325m was spent by the local authority on the scheme so far with an extra £171m from local and central government grants.

The council agreed on Thursday to sell 755 of the homes at the site to a private bidder.

A report to the council’s property committee showed the amount received will be less than the council has spent on the project and debts of between £142m and £152m were expected to remain unpaid.

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