[ mar 2004 ]
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"The key targets to be achieved through the total investment include increasing owner occupation levels (to 65 per cent); halving vacancy rates ( to 2.8 per cent ); refurbishing 15,000 homes and helping to improve a further 10,600; and widening housing choice through the demolition of 6,000 properties, and redevelopment of 270 hectares of land for housing – producing 12,000 new homes, many of which will be ‘aspirational’ in type."
Government 'Pathfinder' regeneration report for Birmingham and Sandwell
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other pathfinder areas :Newcastle and Gateshead, Hull and East Riding of Yorkshire, South Yorkshire ( Sheffield, Barnsley, Rotherham and Doncaster ), North Staffordshire ( Stoke on Trent, Newcastle under Lyme and Staffordshire Moorlands ), Manchester and Salford, Merseyside ( Liverpool, Sefton and Wirral ), Oldham and Rochdale, and East Lancashire ( Blackburn with Darwen, Hyndburn, Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale ).