Cornwall Council offers a range of advice and assistance to help bring long-term empty properties back into use. Its Empty Property Loan scheme has loaned more than £2 million to directly enable over 100 residential units. See press release (issued as part of National Empty Homes Week) for details, and website for further information about other available help.
Bolsover District Council are celebrating Empty Homes Week by promoting its Empty Homes service and its achievements over the past...
North East Derbyshire District Council are celebrating Empty Homes week by holding an event for owners of empty properties across...
Building on the interim findings of the current Property Guardian Research project, Professor Caroline Hunter and Jed Meers at York...
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September 22, 2017
EHN members will be pleased to hear that Chris Skinner has been honoured by our local Law Society. There was a spontaneous standing ovation at the awards ceremony whilst Chris’ children went up on stage to receive the award on his behalf.
The press announcement is reproduced below:
Local government lawyer Chris Skinner has been posthumously awarded for his outstanding contribution to the legal profession in Norfolk by the Norwich and Norfolk Law Society.
Chris, who passed away suddenly in February 2017, lived and worked in Norfolk for most of his career.
His children, Tom and Jess, received the award...
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September 22, 2017
A letter has gone out to Chief Executives and Leaders of local authorities from Helen Williams of the charity Empty...
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September 21, 2017
I have just posted a discussion draft of a document that may be submitted to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry and...
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Sadiq Khan, the London Mayor, has written to the government requesting powers to levy higher council tax on empty...
A new edition of the Empty Homes Agency analysis of empty homes figures has been published, reporting figures mainly derived...
This was a new category in our Empty Homes Awards and it produced more entries than we have ever had,...
The Irish media are reporting the announcement by Eoghan Murphy, Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Goverment, of the measures that are being taken to tackle some of the Republic's 180,000 empty homes.
The empty homes strategy itself has yet to be launched but it is a welcome approach that the infrastructre needed to implement it is already being put into place. Of particular importance is the creation of an Empty Homes Unit within the Housing Ministry. This has been one of the Empty Homes Network's long-standing policy proposals for the British government, which, disappointingly, has yet to receive any...
Empty homes in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea are back in the headlines after RKBC released a list...
The Innovation Award is the brainchild of Carson Millican (pictured right), trading as Empty Property Solutions Ltd. Now based in...
A number of news reports have been citing research by estate agents James Pendleton Ltd. which shows how little use...
