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Around the web: Week Commencing 02-03-2020

Council bosses want power to 'take control' of empty Angus homes - The Courier Runnymede forfeiting £425k due to council tax policy on empty homes - Surrey Live Town hall to hike up council tax on empty homes in 'carrot and stick' approach…

Week commencing 25-02-2020

The boss putting an end to empty homes - BBC News Empty homes will be made more affordable for first-time buyers through £2m scheme - Manchester Evening News South Lanarkshire Council to appoint full-time empty homes officer - Scottish Housing News Empty RAF…

Around the web: Week Commencing 17-02-2020

Empty Richmond homes to be turned into 'affordable housing' under new pilot project - Your Local Guardian Hundreds of empty homes in Worcester could soon have council tax bill tripled as hundreds lie vacant - Worcester News Council to deliver over…

Around the web: Week Commencing 10-02-2020

Council to spend £100000 on empty Calderdale house to create family home - Halifax Courier Sunderland's empty homes to be transformed into council houses as authority aims to clear streets of problem addresses - Sunderland Echo Selby District Council…

Around the web: Week Commencing 03-02-2020

Labour leadership: Landlords should be stripped of empty homes, says Emily Thornberry - The Independant Empty home owners could have Leeds council tax bills trebled under new proposals - Yorkshire Evening Post Labour Leadership hopeful calls for landlords to…

Around the web: Week Commencing 27-01-2020

2000 homes lay empty amid Stafford housing shortage - Express and Star Edinburgh appoints empty homes officer - Scottish Housing News Edinburgh Council employs dedicated empty homes officer to bring properties back into use - Edinburgh News Are the…

Around the web: Week Commencing 20-01-2020

Council tax bills to triple for Birmingham homes left empty for five years - Birmingham Live Affordable housing - what is Harrogate Council's approach? - Harrogate Advertiser Home ownership in the West's biggest economic-policy mistake - The…

Around the web: Week Commencing 13-01-2020

Council tax bills for owners of Stockport empty homes to treble from April - Manchester Evening News SPECIAL REPORT: Scandal of Rotherham's 1100 empty homes - Rotherham Advertiser South Derbyshire homes to face triple tax bill - themediatimes Council…

Around the web: Week Commencing 06-01-2020

More than double the number of homes in Woodbridge sit empty in Suffolk, figures reveal - East Anglian Daily Times Derelict building in Reading could be replaced with new houses - Berkshire Live Derelict house in Manningham hit by fire - Bradford Telegraph…

Around the web: Week Commencing 31-12-2019

Solving the homeless crisis is not as simple as matching people with empty properties - Bristol Post More than 200,000 homes in England are EMPTY - Herald Planet Almost 13,000 houses empty for 10 years as 127,000 kids face homelessness in 2020 - The Mirror…

Around the web: Week Commencing 24-12-2019

West Midlands Fire Srvice asks for the public's help in reporting derelict buildings to the Council - Birmingham Updates Crackdown on vacant, derelict homes causing 'misery' for neighbours - Andover Advertiser Rise in number of Scots New…

Around the web: Week Commencing 09-12-2019

Empty house in Morcambe given new lease of life - Lancashire Post The abandoned buildings of Bath crying out for restoration - Somerset Live Council tax could treble for owners of Rochdale's empty homes - Manchester Evening News Bolton Council to raise…

Around the web: Week Commencing 16-12-2019

Semi-abandoned estate dubbed Scotland's Chernobyl likely to be demolished next year - The Scotsman First look inside derelict Victorian Derbyshire railway station - Derbyshire Live Nationwide: Government must act on empty homes - Mortgage Instroducer 300…

Around the web: Week Commencing 02-12-2019

- Glasgow City Council's empty homes strategy approved - Scottish Housing News - One in 50 homes in Coventry are lying empty - Coventry Live - Fight to end scandal of empty homes in Derbyshire towns and villages - Derbyshire Live - Glasgow council vow to…