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RISE campaign against land-banking highlights empties
The story usefully provides links to multiple viewpoints on the issue.
Rossendale: Homes and Communities Agency requests 'full review' of failed Empty Homes scheme
More grief for Rossendale as HCA seek more detail of compliance. The Rossendale Chief Executive notes: “As a result of a number of external factors the HCA have increased their demand from Rossendale around this project, requesting a full review of…
Developer leaves central London housing block empty for seven years
Just as well there are no homeless people in Westminster. Bit of a long shot, but if they have planning permission to be redeveloped as 'affordable' housing, perhaps they could be EDMOd and affordable rents charged. Depends partly on their current…
Bricks and mortar 1 - 0 People?
This ITV news item seems to suggest that the 'saving' of the Welsh Streets from demolition through the intervention of SAVE in support of local activists, may prove a Pyrrhic victory, with erstwhile residents priced out of some, perhaps most, of the…
Guardian highlights housing association empties
The article discusses empty housing association properties in Kensington and Chelsea - hence the link to Grenfell - but also in County Durham, where hundreds of street properties have been sold in villages such as Horden.
Burnley to CPO delapidated empty costing neighbours thousands
Irish empties over-stated?
A familiar tale of unreliable statistics. This story fails to mention that the census was held in April 2016, whereas the council's survey seems to be recent.
Wrexham homes empty since 2004 to become social housing
Empty Camden Council block in local news
SAVE lauds Welsh Street conversions
Micro-homes in vacant London properties
Suggested as an alternative to property guardianship in one part of the article, whereas it is clearly a particular approach to meeting some of the amenity needs of the guardians, as a closer reading of the article makes clear. It is scarcely a…
How other countries deal with housing shortages - lovemoney.com article
Pembrokeshire to remove 50% council tax discount for empties?
Welcome to the 21st century. The BBC maths is wildly off if, as reported, a 50% discount might be replaced by a 100% premium: that would indicate an increase to up to 4 times current level, not 'double' as suggested by the story.