Empty properties set to be transformed
Three properties in Carr Vale near Bolsover are set to be brought back into use thanks to a partnership between the landlord, Bolsover District Council and Action Housing.
The properties, which are located on Main Street, have been empty for over a year, but with the agreement of the landlord, they have been passed to Action Housing on a 14 year lease that will see them transformed into 6 affordable dwellings.
The £120,000 refurbishment will see 6 x1-bedroom flats become available for the local housing market, which will meet a growing need for this...
We have analysed the provisional NHB allocations for 2017-18 to try and gauge the impact of the changes in the...
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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 homes world has arrived, in the closing months of 2016. To throw some light on the current picture, the Empty Homes Network conducted a survey over the Autumn to find out what staff were employed in addressing the issue of private sector empty homes in each local authority area within England. Of course this does not provide any insight into the excellent work being done by community organisations and the private sector, but it does allow us to get a...
Jon Fitzmaurice OBE, Director of self-help-housing.org, has called for a new round of funding for community housing organisations, building on...
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The Chancellor's Autumn statement offered £1.4billion of additional funding for affordable housing and, importantly, removed the restrictions on tenure which...
Empty Homes Event, Carlisle and Cumbria 2016
Theme: Solutions and opportunities for empty property owners in Carlisle and Cumbria
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September 23, 2016
The Empty Homes Network has now submitted its evidence to the National Housing Taskforce set up by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Housing and Planning. The final documents were sent to Lord Richard Best, Chair of the workstream associated with empty homes, Helen Williams, Chief Executive of the Empty Homes Agency, and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, who were providing the secretariat for the workstream.
Further information can be found in our original news story on the subject and the final versions of the submissions can be downloaded from our Information Library: there are separate entries for clusters of...
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September 22, 2016
The goverment has published its reponses to the 'Consultation on further reform of the compulsory purchase system' that ended in...
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September 19, 2016
We are about to write to England's 326 housing authorities asking them to complete a simple survey about the staff...
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September 14, 2016
The charity Empty Homes has writtent to the Leaders/Mayors of the council-tax-collecting authorities in England announcing Empty Homes Week and...
