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Radio WM,2 mins
Perry Barr residents on empty athletes village
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Two and a half years since the Commonwealth games came to Birmingham, the flats that were built for the athletes are still empty and never even became an athletes village. The development was delayed due to coronavirus and athletes were instead housed in student accommodation. A new report has revealed that the council project will make a loss of around 150 million pounds to taxpayers. Commissioners described the management of the Perry Barr scheme as 鈥渄eeply flawed鈥� with 鈥渕ajor financial consequences鈥�.
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