When the New Homes Bonus was introduced it was made clear that it would eventually become "revenue neutral" by virtue of being top-sliced from formula grant. This would produce a system of winners and losers where the winners would gain at the expense of the losers. But for the first four years of the scheme the government provided about £950million of additional funding to soften the impact and reduce the number of losers.
The National Audit Report on New Homes Bonus[see Note below] left open the question of similar support in future years (though this was surprising as there has...
The results of the bids for Round 2 of the government's Empty Homes Programme were announced at the end June....
With George Clark's Ten Point Plan for Regeneration featuring in the government's £91million funding announcement at the end of June,...
Mark Fisher (left) and Darryl Lawrence (right) both made presentations at a recent Council of Mortgage Lenders Buy-to-Let Conference, as...
The Government has announced a £400million raid on New Homes Bonus in 2015-16 according to the Treasury announcement on infrastructure spending contained in Investing in Britain's Future. The money is being taken out of the direct control of local authorities The document states:
The Spending Round announces that £400 million from the New Homes Bonus will be pooled within Local Enterprise Partnership areas to support strategic housing and economic development priorities.
Strategic Economic Plans
The foregoing extract is is from Chapter 6 on housing: but Chapter 9 makes it clear that the money will be going into the Single Local...
The National Empty Homes Loan scheme, funded as part of the Community Grants Programme and to be delivered via the...
David Ireland, Chief Executive of the charity Empty Homes (previously the Empty Homes Agency) has been awarded an O.B.E. in...
Following a positive evaluation by Sheffield Hallam University of the Welsh Houses into Homes initiative, the Welsh Government has doubled...
The winners of the Empty Homes Awards 2013 were announced at our Conference in Birmingham at a ceremony sponsored by...
Over 110 people attended The Empty Homes Conference 2013 on May 21st and the average feedback was the highest to...
If you're wondering whether it's worth being or becoming a fully paid-up member of the Empty Homes Network then Chris Skinner has given plenty of good reasons for doing so with his forthcoming London course on CPOs (running on July 5th).
Chris, who spoke on the subject of CPOs at our 2010 Conference and who, we guess, must be involved in more CPOs than any other solicitor, is offering a £50 discount to Corporate/Collective members of the Empty Homes Network. For local authority districts that are Collective Members, it means that if they go to Chris's course and also attend...
In an unexpected bonus for the empty homes world, the Nationwide Foundation has announced a grant programme to bring empty...
We're pleased to confirm that Empty Home Solutions LLP have come in as a Gold Supporter for The Empty Homes...
Just to remind you that the deadline for submission of the two empty homes awards is fast approaching (midnight tomorrow)....
