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‘Are you building communities or just houses?’: human cost of Birmingham council’s plans for Druids Heath estate

Residents say they face being priced out or pushed out as 1,800 properties are demolished – with only a fraction of affordable homes guaranteed

Xylia Legonas was just a few years off fully repaying her mortgage and had just finished refurbishing her house after a fire when someone knocked on her door in 2023 and asked if she was aware of the Druids Heath regeneration project.

“The first thing I thought: ‘Don’t tell me you’re going to knock my house down’,” she recalled. “He basically said yes and I thought: ‘What am I going to do? Where am I going to go?’”

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