Submitted by Nick P-G on
In the spirit of the festive season, I have cooked up EHN's first ever Christmas quiz, featuring absolutely no prizes for the first person to submit the right answers.
1. In which year did “The Great British Property Scandal” first appear on Channel 4?
A. 2010.
B. 2011.
C. 1983.
2. David Ireland was awarded what honour in the 2013 Queen’s Birthday Honours?
A. MBE.
B. OBE.
C. BBies.
Submitted by David Gibbens on
In response to members' comments in our online forum, a revised discussion draft of the EHN Policy Position paper has been published, downloadable from our library here.
To allow time for responses to the revised draft, the EHN Executive has accepted a revision of the deadline to 18th December 2014 with the expectation that the final version will be published at the beginning of 2015. The draft will also be discussed at our Executive meeting on Wednesday, 10th December.
Submitted by EHNAdmin on
The Empty Homes Network has published the draft discussion version of its 2014-15 policy paper Filling the Empties: national commitment, local delivery. This available for comment by members and non-members alike and has been added to our Information Library and is downloadable from here.
Submitted by David Gibbens on
This partnership award was the final one to be presented in our Empty Homes Awards 2014 ceremony, (ceremony sponsored by Grafton UK Ltd).
Submitted by EHNAdmin on
With no contention for Executive places, those people nominated were returned unopposed and without the need for an election (phew!).
At its last meeting in July, the Executive voted a huge thank you to Matt Smith of Birmingham City Council (pictured left) for his two-year stint as Chair, a period that included continuing growth for the Empty Homes Network despite the cuts and was also brightened by probably the two best national Conferences that EHN has ever run. Matt's steadying influence has been invaluable during a challenging time.
Submitted by David Gibbens on
The third award featured in our series about the Empty Homes Awards 2014 presented at our Conference in Birmingham in May is that for Best Local Authority / Housing Association Partnership.
Submitted by David Gibbens on
There is now an Empty Homes Network pinterest webpage which will provide a useful hub of links to stories and projects elsewhere on the web as well as to features on our own website.
We welcome new followers - just click one of the "follow" buttons on our pinterest webpage....which is http://www.pinterest.com/EmptyHomesNet/empty-homes-network/
Submitted by David Gibbens on
Adrian White, a student at Plymouth University, is conducting research into housing supply, including the role that can be played by empty homes work, including conversions of redundant commercial space.
This is an interactive online suvey using Smartsurvey. It takes just a couple of minutes to complete and you're encouraged to help Adrian by doing so. We'll report the results in due course when Adrian has analysed them.
You can access the survey here.
Submitted by EHNAdmin on
The second award featured in our series about the Empty Homes Awards 2014 presented at our Conference in Birmingham in May is that for Most Innovative Intervention. This award was newly introduced last year by sponsor Carson Millican, trading as Empty Property Solutions Ltd (contactable by email).
Submitted by David Gibbens on
We have been approached by television production company Keo Films to try and source a serious pest problem and a serious pest officer - who, it seems, has to be female. (The pests can be any gender as far as we know, although we hear they're normally male).