In addition to exploring the use of CPOs, this news article reports that if Charnwood removed their current one-month exemption for unfurnished empties they would take in up to £250,000 extra. Unfortunately, as a two-tier district they would only retain 8% of…
The figures are still provisional - final figures are released normally in February, as part of the Local Government Finance Settlement 2016-17.
The part of the debate where CPOs are discussed in relation to empty homes starts at column 617: or just search for "empty".
Lorna Mackie, from the Nationwide Foundation, gives a funder's view of the good work that can be done by community housing groups, based in part on the Foundation's own experience with two separate rounds of grant funding.
The final Empty Homes Week blog post from the 24dash.com housing website.
Liz Jamil describes some features of Hull's award-winning empty homes partnership.
Including pictures of the cake! And a new video.
A quick tour of the empty homes issue around England, with examples of different types of intervention and different problems - buy-to-leave, Islington's new planning regime, CPO, EDMO, community housing groups and more.
The effect of the bedroom tax on lettings of social housing has occasionally surfaced. This story provides evidence that in some housing markets the effect is real.
The tanker is slowly turning in the direction of homesteading, five years after the HMII was abandoned.
This is primarily a lobbying campaign, although the Big Issue is also involved in financing community-led empty homes projects in London following a deal with the Mayor. The key areas that BI wants to promote are:More support and funding for community-led…
This report cites the views of the Lib Dems (who originally introduced Houses to Homes) as well as the current Welsh Government. As is so often the case there is a s dispute about the significance of the figures.
