Plan to transform empty property into accommodation for hospital staff - Yahoo News UK
CHANGES are planned for a Dorchester town centre house – switching it to a 5-bedsit property with shared kitchen, dining and laundry areas.
Demand for asbestos surveys to get houses back in action - Yahoo News UK
A drive to get empty Southampton council houses back in fit-and-proper condition has put pressures on the local authority's asbestos team.
Average UK house price climbs for first time in almost a year - Yahoo Finance
Twelve years ago, an empty homes tax was introduced across England in an attempt to bring “ghost homes” back to life. The Telegraph • 6 hours ago ...
Glasgow's Affordable Housing Supply Programme hits 1000 new homes milestone
A further 70 void or empty properties had works undertaken on them to allow them to be let. The AHSP also funded over 1,200 medical adaptations to ...
Demand for housing still presenting 'challenges' as county tackles 'housing crisis' - Nation.Cymru
Under the council's buy to let scheme 43 houses had been purchased, with 11 properties now let. Some 259 empty homes had also come back into use since ...
Overseas property speculators must stop 'hoarding homes' in Scotland, says MSP
... property sitting empty for months or even years at first. "Ideally these nonsense companies should be banned from buying homes in Scotland at all ...
The Lancashire council buying local houses in a bid to tackle homelessness
Options were looked at and now councillors have agreed that Pendle Council purchase and renovate five, two-bedroom, long-term empty properties within ...
Government promises more powers for councils to reclaim empty homes - Inside Housing
The central London local authority has called on the government to make it easier to issue Empty Dwelling Management Orders (EDMOs) to properties that ...
Taxing second home owners will fail. Britain's empty homes crackdown proves it
The coalition government, under the premiership of David Cameron, was “straining every sinew” to ensure vacant homes became a thing of the past – yet ...
Govt backs council to take over vacant homes after just six months - The Negotiator
Labour-run Westminster Council has been backed by the Government in its demands for a change in Empty Management Dwelling Orders (EDMO) to allow ...
Britain needs to build more homes rather than focusing on vacant housing - LBC
Given the severity of Britain's housing crisis, it is not surprising that people are outraged when they hear about vacant properties.
Efforts ongoing to reuse empty homes - DNG Online Limited - DnG24
... homes, and also bringing more empty properties back into use. At the last full council meeting, North West Dumfries Councillor Emma Jordan asked ...
Pendle Council to buy two-bedroom houses to support homeless - BBC News
"Options were looked at and now councillors have agreed that Pendle Council purchase and renovate five two-bedroom, long-term empty properties within ...
Northumberland MP hits out at empty council houses in the county | Hexham Courant
It comes to around 2% of our 8,700 homes. Other similar councils have between 3% and 4% void properties, so we are at around half that level. “I' ...