Delays meant Birmingham spent £60m less on Commonwealth Games village in first quarter of this year

By Jordan Marshall2020-06-17T05:00:00

Council had budgeted to fork out £179m but scheme falling behind schedule saw huge underspend

Birmingham council spent almost £60m less on the project to build the Commonwealth Games athletes’ village than it planned in the first three months of this year because of delays to the programme.

Papers published ahead of next week’s meeting of the council’s cabinet have revealed the council shelled out £117m rather than the £179m it had planned in the final three months of its 2019/20 financial year.

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