Bournemouth Borough Council are upping their efforts to deal with empty homes with the appointment of a full-time Empty Homes Officer.
The existing Empty Homes Strategy covered the years 2009-2012 and relied on a partnership with Bournemouth's four development partners for funding. That funding dried up and there has been no empty homes officer in post since 2011.
Nicky Thomas, Housing Manager (Private Sector Housing and Adaptations) said:
We’re really in need of some proactive work, particularly to take more robust action with the worst properties. Following a very detailed business case to the members, which noted the advantages for...
We're very pleased to announce that there will now be four separate awards to be presented at the Empty Homes...
Our second Leeds Empties Week took place from 17th to 21st of March 2014.
The focus this year was on...
The government has introduced a new measure to try to curb buy-to-leave invesments in London. The measure is applicable throughout...
The charity Empty Homes has announced that Helen Williams is replacing David Ireland as the new Chief Executive. Helen was previously an Assistant Director at the National Housing Federation, the industry body for housing associations.
Chair of Empty Homes Mark Hemingway commented:
“I am absolutely delighted to be able to welcome Helen to the Empty Homes Charity. She has a wealth of housing experience and she is the perfect choice as the new Chief Executive to replace David. Helen will be able to build on the many successes we have had in our campaigning work and she will be able...
Analysis of the recently-released final figures for the October 2013 Council Taxbase return show no fewer than 86 local authorities...
The Welsh Houses to Homes initiative - built around a loan scheme modelled on the Kent No Use Empty model...
One of the issues that we had not fully bottomed out prior to this year's Council Taxbase figures being collected...
DCLG's revised Council Tax Base figures for 2013 show a significant reduction in the overall number of empty homes compared...
In a timely press release, the LGA has called on the government to improve the powers available to local authorities...
The Kent No Use Empty scheme has won the top award in the Partnership Working category in the inaugural Placemaking Awards 2013. The results were announced at the end of January at the awards ceremony held at the British Museum.
The Kent award announcement reads as follows:
This project was launched by Kent County Council with local authorities in Swale, Shepway, Dover and Thanet as a means of transforming the county's 9,000 long-term empty homes into quality housing, while also improving the physical urban environment. The initiative offers free advice and interest-free loans of up to £175,000 to those wishing...
The final figures for Year 4 allocations of New Homes Bonus have now been published.
You can download the relevant...
Empty properties made the headlines on Saturday with a Guardian newspaper front-page story about empty mansions on "billionaires row" (Bishop's...
The HCA has launched its 2015-18 Affordable Homes Programme (AHP) with bids to the £1.7 billion pot to be submitted...
