Birmingham Council spent £36,000 paying off tenants’ rent arrears in October which may explain why they aren’t too fussed about spending £8,895 renting a three-bedroom holiday home in Harborne.
The money spent on preventing homelessness comes from ‘the Government’ (ie taxpayers nationwide rather than just Birmingham taxpayers) and, since 2022, it totals £3.7 million.
As for the holiday home, Noormak Nights, it’s a three-bedroom apartment with some reasonable reviews on booking.com
The council is very accommodating: If you’re still looking for somewhere to rest your head, why not try one of the hotels enjoyed on the council credit card? In October, £10,500 went on hotels including £3,600 for a couple of days at Coulsdon Manor Hotel and Golf Club in Surrey.
The council’s cradle-to-grave generosity extends to funerals too. It spent £18,000 last month with its ‘preferred partner’ Wesley Media for providing audio, visual, and webcasting services for funerals bringing the total since May 2022 to £160,000.
And then there’s the real high life – a meal at 24 Stories, ‘Birmingham’s highest and most spectacular restaurant, with breath-taking views and iconic rooftop cocktail bar’. Starters range from £12 to £21, chicken’s £32, cod £33. A council credit card forked out £363 there on November 1. Nothing’s too good for the workers…
Oh, and while the bin strike is set to continue until after the next local elections, the city that can’t collect the rubbish is spending £8,867,500 buying 375,000 wheelie bins, 345,000 slop buckets and 345,000 external food caddies ‘to support Birmingham City Council's Waste Transformation Programme’.
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