this is perry barr, four miles from new street station where the stadium is transformed.ears to prepare, events got in the way. you must stay at home. tougher restrictions have come into force in birmingham to try to stop the spread of the virus. in the lockdown, the country set to host the world would have to adapt. this part of perry barr should have been the athletes' village, but with two years of covid setbacks, plans changed. now the participants are spread across the whole region, and this development becomes housing. the very fact that we are acomodating the athletes and the officials at the university of birmingham, the university of warwick and hotels around the national exhibition centre is a model forfuture generations of the commonwealth games and olympic games, because the construction of a village is very, very expensive, pushes up the cost of hosting these events, and the commonwealth games federation are keen to reduce the cost going forward to make these events more affordable for more cities around the commonwealth. the athletes may live elsewhere, but