Helen Williams, the new Chief Executive of the charity Empty Homes, has announced that hte National Empty Homes Loans Fund is to be discontinued less than a year after it was launched. A statement from Empty Homes reads:
The Empty Homes Agency has written to all the local authority members of the National Empty Homes Loans Fund to advise them that is regrettably closing the scheme because it has not been able to find a way of making the scheme work without an unacceptable level of financial risk to Empty Homes.
Empty Homes are also writing to all applicants to...
Eric Pickles spoke to the CIH Conference in Manchester on 25th June outlining his latest plans to boost housing supply....
A Planning Inspector has ruled that a flat created above retail premises did not need planning permission but was acceptable...
We have been approached by television production company Keo Films to try and source a serious pest problem and a...
Followng the release of the official housing statistics on June 12th, EHN has prepared a spreadsheet that focuses exclusively on the empty homes element of the Empty Homes Programmes of the HCA and GLA. The figures do not look promising for meeting the March 2015 delivery targets, although success is not ruled out.
Original programme in tatters
What we can certainly say is that delivery against the numbers of units originally predicted to be delivered when the grant allocations were announced in 2012 has been disastrous. This is hardly news as there have been many stories, anecdotal and otherwise, of...
The Empty Homes Awards 2014 attracted a wide range of impressive submissions. The Awards were presented at a ceremony sponsored...
The government has romised to introduce new flexibilities into change of use rules. The press pack accompanying the text of...
The Empty Homes Conference, organised by the Empty Homes Network and sponsored by Ad Hoc Property Management Ltd., was our...
Planning magazine has run a feature Ensuring cheats do not prosper* on the use of the Proceeds of Crime Act...
Responses to EHN’s Freedom of Information request from 2013 show about 300 Full-time Equivalent (FTE) staff working on empty homes...
Big discounts are available for EHN Full Members attending the Enforcement Options training day run by Andrew Lavender in St. Albans on the 29th April.
Whilst the normal price is £145 plus VAT, our Full Members can attend for just £110 plus VAT. This follows in the footsteps of Chris Skinner, whose CPO course last year also offered substantial discounts to our Full Members.
Numbers are limited on the St. Albans course so if you want to attend you'll need to contact Andrew soon if you haven't already done so. For full details see the event listing.
Empty Homes Awards 2014 open for entries
Every year we present awards to recognise excellence in empty homes work at...
The criteria applicable to the Community Led Project Support Fund have been tweaked so that community groups can access the...
New research indicates the range of positive impacts delivered by the government’s £50million Empty Homes Community Grants Programme and the...
