Birmingham City Council to spend £100m greening homes
Birmingham City Council is set to launch a tender that could lead to £1.3 billion of green retrofit work for 200,000 local homes and commercial buildings.
Leading Council for the Green Deal
The council claimed it would become the leading council for the government’s Green Deal, with a retrofit programme in which it would initially arrange £100 million in funding on private sector housing work, partly by borrowing £75m.
It is set to tender for its main contractor in the deal with an OJEU notice before the end of July.
A further £300m will be released through private finance if this first stage is successful, while the total programme could see £1.3bn spent on refurbishing 200,000 homes by 2026.
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