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Four new tram routes in Birmingham and the Black Country in huge Metro plan - including Hagley Road

Four new tram routes in Birmingham and the Black Country in huge Metro plan - including Hagley Road
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Flawed figures led to building of thousands of homes on green belt land, watchdog says

Inaccurate statistics were used to justify building thousands of homes on green belt land, a watchdog has found. The Office for National Statistics had predicted Coventry’s population would rise by 32 per cent between 2011 and 2031, twice as much as Birmingham, which led the city council to plan for more than 40,000 new homes. Many of these homes could be built on green belt land that once formed the Forest of Arden. It had wrongly been assumed foreign students would stay on in Coventry, rather than move away But campaigners said the ONS wrongly assumed that foreign students at local universities would stay in the area after their studies. 

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