The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has found that ”none of Birmingham’s biggest housing developments meet its 35% affordable housing target”.
“Of 82 of the biggest housing developments in 10 major cities [just] 40% complied with local affordable housing targets. Other than Birmingham, the cities where at least 50% of housing schemes failed to meet local affordable housing targets were Bristol, Bradford, Cardiff, Manchester and Sheffield.
We’ve extracted the parts of the BIJ data (published here) that deals with large developments in Birmingham and the renegotiation of agreements in the West Midlands – and published it in two tables below.
You can also find the Birmingham data in a Google spreadsheet here, and the West Midlands data here.
A background to how the BIJ investigated housing can be found here.
What else can you find out about the developments, or about housing in the Midlands? Let us know if we can help.
Data: the biggest developments in Birmingham
| Biggest developments | Developer / housebuilder | Overall units | Number of affordable units | Affordable (%) | Compliant with Local Authority’s Affordable Housing Target (AHT) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Land corner of Suffolk St Queensway and Holliday St B1 1HH (V Building) (2007/03635/PA) | Dandara | 706 | 0 | 0.00% | N/A |
| Broad St Tower, 212-223 Broad St, B15 1AY (2011/06063/PA) | Richardsons Capital LLP | 342 | 0 | 0.00% | No |
| Typhoo Wharf, Bordesley St, B5 5PN (2012/03227/PA) | Benacre Properties | 353 | 12 | 3.4% | No |
| Former Silver Blades Ice Rink, Pershore St, B5 4RW (2010/05998/PA) | Dunbar Developments | 231 | 0 | 0.00% | No |
| Within Warwickshire Cricket Ground, North of Ground Rear of Ragland Road B57QT Edgebaston | MCDevelopments | 212 | 0 | 0.00% | No |
| Metropolitan House, 1 Hagley Road, B16 8TG (2012/03499/PA) | Mountgrange | 182 | 13 | 7.14% | No |
| Former Sandpits Industrial Estate, Summer Hill Street (2005/04827/PA) | Hansteen UK Industrial Property Limited | 133 | 19 | 14.29% | No |
| Land bounded by Wrentham Street and Kent Street and Gooch Street North | West Register (Realisations) Ltd | 120 | 14 | 11.67% | No |
| Browns Green Handsworth Wood Birmingham B20 1BG (2010/00524/PA) | Greater Midlands Housing Company | 155 | 40 | 25.81% | No |
| Summer Lane, Honduras Wharf Phase 2 (2010/06464/PA) | Crosby Lend Lease | 101 | 5 | 4.95% | No |
Data: housing agreements in the West Midlands
| Area | No of s106 under renegotiation (OVER 50???) | Number of renegotiations since 2007 (over 50 houses) | Original number of affordable housing units | Number of affordable housing units after renegotiation | Affordable housing units lost | Affordable housing units gained | Affordable units under application for removal | Affordable units under application for gain |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Birmingham | 0 | 3 | 70 | 45 | 25 | |||
| Dudley | 1 | 2 | 25 | 0 | 25 | |||
| Herefordshire | 1 | 0 | 12 | 9 | 0 | 3 | ||
| Lichfield | 0 | 3 | 81 | 51 | 30 | |||
| Rugby | 5 | 1 | 135 | 27 | 0 | 108 | ||
| Sandwell | 3 | 6 | 141 | 116 | 25 | |||
| Stafford | 0 | 2 | 15 | 0 | 15 | |||
| Telford and Wrekin | 1 | 5 | 175 | 113 | 62 | |||
| Walsall | 0 | 9 | 231 | 114 | 117 | |||
| Wolverhampton | 0 | 1 | 37 | 10 | 27 | |||
| Wyre Forest | 1 | 1 | 25 | 26 | 0 | 1 | 6 |