Birmingham council is seeking public approval to build as many as 10,000 homes on its greenbelt.
The city council will on Thursday look for approval to launch a public consultation into its development plan.
The plan identifies 3,484 acres of countryside in north and east Birmingham around the Sutton Coldfield area for housing and large-scale industrial parks.
The housing is being proposed to help deal with a predicted 150,000 increase in the city’s population over the period to 2031. The council says this will mean the city needs to build between 80,000 and 105,000 homes.
It has been able to identify sites for only 43,000 of these, however. The remainder will need to be provided by other local authorities such as Solihull, Lichfield and Bromsgrove.
Birmingham council is also wants to win approval from cabinet this Thursday for an eight-week public consultation on what its CIL tariff will be.
The consultation will set out the charges for residential and city centre and out-of-town offices. The latter is likely to be £115 per m2.
GVA has carried out the modelling work for the CIL tariffs.
Initial consultation has already taken place with agents, developers, housebuilders and planning consultancies.
Following the public consultation, a full CIL draft charging schedule will be produced in early summer 2013.
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