THOUSANDS of derelict and empty council-owned garages could be demolished and turned into new housing, playgrounds and allotments under sweeping council proposals.Read
COUNCIL leaders are allowing up to £1.5 million a year to slip through their fingers because house repair contractors are failing to meet targets for doing up empty homes, it has been claimed.Read
COUNCIL chiefs in Birmingham have warned they will have to borrow “massive amounts” of money to do a U-turn and bring up to scratch two tower blocks which were due to be bulldozed.Read
THE amount every Birmingham council house tenant shells out to improve homes in Manchester, Liverpool and Sheffield will rise to £17 a week it has been claimed.Read