Join Fraser and Fraser with guest speaker Andrew Lavender for webinar: Challenges to Enforcement Notices: “Forewarned is Forearmed”Andrew Lavender is an Environmental Health Practitioner and qualified surveyor, who has specialised in housing for the last 27…
Action on Empty Homes have appointed Rebecca Moore to the role of Director, following the departure of Will McMahon in November. Rebecca joins Action on Empty Homes from a background working across sectors in arts and culture, education, and social…
It can be risky to take things completely at face value - they’re not always as they seem. Take the case we’ve just dealt with for an EHO at a council in the Home Counties. The EHO was relatively new in post and on her list was three-years-empty 23 The Limes.…
We pleased to share the release of the Empty Homes Network’s training and events calendar for 2023.The Empty Homes Network provides courses for all experience levels, ranging from our ‘Introduction to Empty Homes for Practitioners’ course, for those new to…
The Empty Homes Network are excited to announce the return to an in-person Conference for 2023. After two successful years holding our annual event virtually, we are returning to our pre-Covid platform and venue, in what promises to be our biggest Conference…
Following the release of the Council Taxbase 2022 statistics, The Empty Homes Network has taken a closer look at the comparison in figures from last year, in which has seen the numbers of empty homes across many of the criteria, rise over the past 12…
The Council Taxbase dataset, which provides statistical information on empty, second and exempt homes across England has been released for 2022.The information, broken down by regions as well as local authority areas, provides a snapshot of a local…
Job Title: Empty Property OfficerLocal Authority: Merton CouncilGrade/Salary: ME13 £42,795 - £45,834 per annumTerm: 2 year fixed term contractThe Regulatory Services Partnership delivers the private sector housing service on behalf of the London Boroughs of…
I was slightly aghast at the latest empty homes figures. Even disregarding second homes, unsold new-builds, the regular ebb and flow of straightforward CT exemption “F” cases and so on, there’s still a heck of a lot.We’ve recently taken on a case that was a…
The deadline for submissions for this year’s Empty Homes statistics survey has been extended until Friday 18th November. Further to the anticipated release of the Council Taxbase statistics 2022, the Empty Homes Network are encouraging empty homes officers…
Following on from our survey in 2021, The Empty Homes Network are pleased to announce the release of its second survey, aimed at building a comprehensive understanding of the current figures and statistics held by Empty Homes officers across the…
One of our case managers buzzed me the other day with some news of an Empty Home we’re helping to Bring Back Into Use. An Empty Homes Officer at a Local Authority had been getting nowhere trying to engage with the owners and referred it to us - could we help…
The Empty Homes Network has returned from Chicago, having thoroughly enjoyed the National Conference highlighting vacancy, abandonment and derelict properties right across the US, hosted by the Center for Community Progress.The huge, three-day event was…
