Copeland marks national Empty Homes Week
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Wirral: 'Drop in for advice on bringing empty homes back into use'
Guardian story: England has more than 200,000 empty homes. How to revive them?
Highlights Community Campus, Giroscope, Plymouth, Stoke-on-Trent amongst others, thanks to the Action on Empty Homes new campaign about community inittiatives to bring empties back into use, led by Chris Bailey.
20-years empty - another probate fiasco
Certainly in England there would be legal avenues for the local authority to deal with this property if it had required council intervention involving debts, as sessions by lawyers Ashfords at EHN conferences have explained more than once. But in England,…
'Fraction of empty homes in Scotland brought back into use' - STV
ITV News: are empty homes the answer to a housing crisis?
A slight piece, only a couple of minutes long.
Hong Kong empty homes tax may have little effect
MoD homes privatisation 'disastrous'
This refers to a Public Accounts report that can be accessed via our Information Library here (Full Members only).
Hong Kong to tax empties
'How regeneration of Scotland's derelict houses is driving economic growth' - Scotsman
Vince Cable proposes 500% council tax on long-term empties
Speech in full can be retrieved from: https://www.markpack.org.uk/155193/vince-cable-housing-speech/
Ten Scots councils 'have no staff to reduce empty homes' - STV
Extract: Shaheena Din, SEHP national manager, said: "The evidence is clear - where a local authority employs an empty homes officer the results are outstanding. "Some local authorities can bring hundreds of empty homes back into use while others…
Planning battle brews on North London’s Billionaires’ Row
British Columbia to introduce Speculation Tax on empties
The proposed tax has produced a significant backlash from local second home owners: www.timescolonist.com/real-estate/homeowners-fighting-b-c-speculation-tax-hire-lawyer-for-potential-class-action-suit-1.23307334