We're pleased to announce that there will now be five separate Empty Homes Awards to be presented at the Empty Homes Conference 2016, thanks in particular to support from Grafton UK Ltd.
The Grafton team, led by Director Mark Byrne, has become well-known in the empty homes practitioner world for their help with tracing hard-to-find owners. But the tracing service is now just one part of a more comprehensive offer to assist with challenging empty homes projects, where the company can draw on the expertise of Dave Stott, one of Britain’s best-known empty homes practitioners, and lawyer Lyndon Campbell of...
As we approach the 2016 Empty Homes Awards season, it's worth refreshing memories with a look back at last year's...
DCLG and HM Treasury are consulting on further changes to the compulsory purchase legislation. Most of the changes do not...
The Empty Homes Network has published a brief document inviting the candidates in the election for London Mayor to consider...
Two leading self-help housing organisations from have scooped World Habitat Awards in the 2015-16 competition. Girsocope and Canopy, both well-known for their innovative approaches to tackling empty homes, offered a joint submission under the heading "Self-Help Housing in the North of England". They were announced as winners on the 29th February (along with a Puerto Rican Community Land Trust). There were ten finalists from all over the world and the awards will be presented to the winners at "Habitat III" in Ecuador in October 2016 at the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development. Giroscope and Canopy are...
Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire, Anglesey, Conwy, Ceredigion, Powys, Gwynedd and Flintshire are the first Welsh Local Authorities looking at implementing a 50%...
In a major departure from accepted practice, the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead has released details of empty properties...
Speaking at the Goverment Property Conference this morning, Matt Hancock, Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General, announced that...
What has Pay to Stay got to do with empty properties I hear you ask? Well from a southern perspective...
A study of community-led housing by the Smith Institute, a left-leaning think-tank, has called for the government to re-instate the...
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Cherwell and South Northamptonshire Councils are advertising for a jointly-funded Empty Property Officer who will work 2.5 days in each local authority area. The authorities already share a Chief Executive. However, this is not yet a shared empty homes service, with the post-holder reporting separately to different managers in each authority.
The advert for the £28k+ job was recently circulated to EHN Members with a tight deadline of 24th January for applications to be submitted (see further details below).
The job advert reads:
We are looking...
The Housing and Planning Bill, currently before Parliament, has some 31 clauses dealing with compulsory purchase orders. This article is...
Stoke-on-Trent Cabinet has approved a proposal for an investigation into the feasibility of a second wave of "£1 homes".
The...
The government's consultation on New Homes Bonus contains both good and bad news for empty homes practitioners. The good news...
