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Every year, at the National Empty Homes Conference, we present awards to recognise excellence in empty homes work. One of...
Preparations are well in hand for the national Empty Homes Conference to be held in Birmingham on Wednesday 24th May....
Christopher Frank Skinner Chris Skinner died on 14 February on his 59th birthday at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, close...
Abdus Saleh, once of London Rebuilding Society and now Empty Homes Manager at Cromwood Housing plc, has provided the following information about a funding package that can help local authorities and other social housing providers bring empties back into use. Funding: key details £2m from a social bank to bring back into use empty properties for the use of social housing. Typical nomination terms to the council will be 5-10 years or something bespoke but a minimum of 5 years. The funding is specific to London Authorities at the moment. The funding allows us to help administer empty properties stuck...
The Housing and Planning Act 2016 introduced a number of small changes to compulsory purchase procedures, which have little impact...
The Housing White Paper will be the subject of extensive comment in the housing press and national newspapers and this...
News stories in the Bristol Post have been reporting a potentially landmark case, the outcome of which hinges on whether...
An alert has been issued by the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau's Proactive Intelligence Team highlighted the issue of fraud associated...
Empty properties set to be transformed Three properties in Carr Vale near Bolsover are set to be brought back into...
We have analysed the provisional NHB allocations for 2017-18 to try and gauge the impact of the changes in the NHB regime. To do this we have combined the provisional allocations table with more detailed data extracted from the current year's NHB calculator. The results are contained in an analysis that you can find in our Information Library here. This is for Full Members only so you will need to be logged in to access it. The key things to remember when getting to grips with the figures are: this year authorities are only getting 5 years worth of NHB,...
The government has announced the results of its consultation into the New Homes Bonus - and it means that a...
A previous ‘state of the nation’ article reviewed the situation with English local authority empty homes staff, based on a...
As the dust starts to settle after Empty Homes Week, it is time to take stock of where the empty...
