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‘Meeting the Challenge’ Award 2018 - winner

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January 29, 2019

We are very grateful indeed to Carson Millican, trading as Empty Property Solutions, for his continuing support of the Empty Homes Awards. This year, he sponsored the newly configured ‘Meeting the Challenge’ Award, which aims to emphasise the case-work aspect of what practitioners do by recognising a particularly challenging case. What, in turn, is challenging  for the judging panel is that the whole empty homes practitioner universe is awash with difficult cases and singling out a winner can only leave other worthy contenders disappointed. So it needs to be emphasised that the recognition ultimately awarded by the Panel was not...

Empty Homes Innovation Award 2018

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December 6, 2018

Sponsorship of this year’s Innovation Award was provided by E.ON Empty Home Solutions, along with the sponsorship of the Awards...

Empty Homes Partnership Award - #2

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November 19, 2018

Following on from Friday’s news item, here is the other winning submission for the 2018 Partnership Award. It comes from...

Empty Homes Partnership Award - #1

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November 16, 2018

This Award was relaunched in 2018 with the very welcome support of Cromwood Social, represented by Abdus Saleh at October's Empty Homes Conference.  With Abdus’s support Cromwood had previously sponsored other awards, but the partnership award they sponsored this year was a natural fit for them – as those authorities that have worked with Cromwood have always be happy to testify. (It’s worth noting here that the Network only accepts sponsorship from organisations that we believe can make a genuine contribution to the work practitioners do). In previous years,  there have been specific categories for different types of partnership –...

Action on Empty Homes relaunches with Empty Homes Week statement

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October 18, 2018

Our partners and champions at Action on Empty Homes (previously 'Empty Homes' and 'Empty Homes Agency') issued the following press release for Empty Homes Week: Campaign calls for an end to the scandal of hundreds of thousands of empty homes At the start of Empty Homes Week 15 – 21 October 2018[1], Action on Empty Homes[2] is calling on the government to support local authorities to enable them to refurbish the hundreds of thousands of properties standing empty across England. The most recent data[3] shows there are more than 605,000 empty homes in England and that 205,000 are long-term empty...