Cromwood Social has stepped in to sponsor the Empty Homes Award for Best Before-and-After Photo, which is a new award category this year. Details of the Award Category can be found in our news story here.
We were contacted yesterday by Cromwood's Abdus Saleh with the offer of sponsorship, which we were happy to accept. Cromwood Social is also going to provide Silver Supporter sponsorship.
Abdus has a long history of involvement with empty homes, starting with a stint at London Rebuiding, where he made positive connections with a number of London authorities. He has continued to build those relations...
Shelter Scotland has issued a Local Government Manifesto for Homes - part of their 'Homelessness - Far from Fixed' campaign...
We are looking for submissions for two more categories in the Empty Homes Awards 2017. These are new categories which...
Whilst the Conservative goverment at Westminster removed empty homes from the policy landscape in the wake of the 2015 General...
Next up in the series of opportunities to win an Empty Homes Award at this year's National Empty Homes Conference is the vital Innovation Award.
This has been sponsored yet again by Carson Millican. Carson has worked for several local authorities and the East London Regeneration Partnership as the lead on empty homes and is currently Director of Empty Property Solutions Ltd. He specialises in working with Local Authorities to develop empty property approaches and strategies that will win New Homes Bonuses and tap into available funding.
About the Innovation Award
Empty property practitioners excel at providing a range of...
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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...
The Housing and Planning Act 2016 introduced a number of small changes to compulsory purchase procedures, which have little impact in relation to the compulsory acquisition of empty homes. There were, however, two provisions which are of greater note. One allows the Secretary of State to delegate to an inspector the decision whether or not to confirm a contested CPO. The other provides for the Secretary of State to specify time limits for making decisions on contested CPOs.
On 11 January 2017 the Secretary of State consulted on these two provisions. The suggested criteria for delegating decision-making is as follows:...
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...
