In a speech to the first Community-Led Housing Conference, Alok Sharma MP praised the sector and announced a new programme of financial support.
£60million has already been given to local authorities with high levels of second home ownership. The minister has now offered a further £60million to help fund further development 'for the first year alone', implying an ongoing programme. This accords with the announcement for the original £60million, which was presented as a 'hypothecation' from the additional revenue being raised by the 3% SDLT surcharge on purchases of second homes.
The $64,000 question is whether the bidding criteria will...
The BBCs newly launched Shared Data Unit has already produced a major new data resource for empty homes.[1]
This shows...
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Most practitioners will by now be aware that the Chancellor, Philip Hammond, has decided to allow local authorities in...
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The recently published report by the Independent Task Force into the Grenfell fire recovery makes frustrating reading. Leaving aside...
One of the few positives to emerge from the National Audit Office's investigation into New Homes Bonus - other than its acknowledged stimulus to local authority efforts to bring empty homes back into use - was that it was easy to understand.[1]
Obviously that couldn't be allowed to continue so the government has come up with a raft of proposals about how to make it more complicated as laid out in the recent 'Technical Consultation' on the 2018-19 local government finance settlement, where the majority of questions concern the New Homes Bonus .
Baseline threshold
Actually, the first such complication...
For the second year running (as mentioned in my blog post) our Cumbria Empty Property Group is producing a regional...
Cornwall Council offers a range of advice and assistance to help bring long-term empty properties back into use. Its Empty...
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...
