Empty Homes Awards 2014 open for entries
Every year we present awards to recognise excellence in empty homes work at our Annual Conference at a ceremony sponsored by Grafton UK Ltd.
This year, we’re pleased to announce the opportunity to win two new awards, one for partnerships between local authorities and community groups, the other for partnerships between local authorities and housing associations.
We'd love to get your submissions for these awards - by midnight, Sunday 11th May please. Submissions should be clear and to the point and no more than two sides of A4 or the equivalent in an...
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...
Bournemouth Borough Council are upping their efforts to deal with empty homes with the appointment of a full-time Empty Homes...
We're very pleased to announce that there will now be four separate awards to be presented at the Empty Homes Conference 2014 (sponsored again this year by property guardian experts Ad Hoc Ltd.)
We'll give you further details about each of the awards over the next week or so, to give you plenty of time to work up your submissions. In the meantime, here are some details to whet appetites and get the wheels of creativity turning.
Firstly, we are very grateful that the Awards Ceremony is again sponsored by Grafton UK Ltd. Grafton have become well-known in the empty...
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...
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 and released was what would happen to properties that were previously Exemption Class "A" and were empty for more than 6 months at the time of the CTB return. Were they going to swell the number of long-term empties and thereby reduce the amount of New Homes Bonus?
The answer proves to be "yes" and "no". They have been added to the numbers of long-term empty dwellings (Line 16 on the CTB analysis) but they have not been included as...
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...
