an alliance of seven local West Midlands councils of Birmingham, Coventry, Solihull, Sandwell, Dudley, Wolverhampton and Walsall, a condition was that we would have to create a directly elected mayor to release
By this stage, the post-war consensus over expanding council housing had been overtaken by political competition to promote homeownership, and later, agendas to reduce the public sector and public expenditure. Council housing had played a steadily increasing role between 1919 and 1981. It provided 2...
Meanwhile, a previous leader of the council, John Clancy, together with a local academic, has claimed that the council has made huge overpayments to the West Midlands Pension Fund over years, without which many of the cuts would not have been necessary, even for pro-austerity councillors. ACR...
2.1. Birmingham Resource Flows To determine the resource flows of the city, secondary data have been extracted from a number of datasets produced by the UK Government, water companies, trade organisations, Birmingham City Council, and company information. The resources that have been considered in ...
Read the full-text online article and more details about "Crunch Pain Sees Little Gain; Planning Deals Meant to Benefit Birmingham City Council Are Proving Hard to Nail Down. Paul Dale Reports" - The Birmingham Post (England), December 24, 2009...
Councillor Ian Ward, Leader of Birmingham City Council, said:“I’m delighted to see the scale of progress being made at Dandara Living’s landmark U&A development. They are making great use of the Unity House site, which has been vacant for many years. ...
Birmingham officially launched a bid for the 2026 Commonwealth Games Friday, saying that the Games would create thousands of new jobs, benefit local suppliers, and boost existing transport and housing plans. Villa Park in Birmingham Birmingham city council leader John Clancy said, “Birmingham is a...
The strategy will benefit those people with the technological and engineering skills needed to create improvements in autonomous vehicle technology. But what will happen to thefargreater number of people who earn their living simply by driving vehicles? They will first see their income fall, and sec...