Lifting the Burdens Task Force review of CLG: housing and planning - Government response
December 1, 2009
This is the government's response to the Lifting the Burden task-force recommendations - including the recommendation to remove BVPI64 immediately. As BVPI64 has now gone, this mainly of historical interest. But in its response here, the government refused to remove the indicator saying it was needed to ensure local authorities took responsibility for empty city centre flats.
(The LGA taskforce had made a big play about empty city centre apartments unfairly pushing up their empty homes figures....).
