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Empty Homes Awards 2013

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May 31, 2013

The winners of the Empty Homes Awards 2013 were announced at our Conference in Birmingham at a ceremony sponsored by Grafton UK Ltd. The judging panel consisted of Mark Byrne (Grafton UK Ltd.), Andrew Lavender (Consultant/Kent County Council), Matt Smith (Birmingham City Council and EHN Chair) and Carson Millican (Independent Empty Homes Practitioner). As previously, the standard of submissions was high and the Panel was not unanimous in its views. The job was also bigger than in previous years because there were two awards not one. Empty Homes Practitioner of the Year Award 2013 This award was sponsored by Grafton...

Empty Home Solutions supporting The Empty Homes Conference 2013

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May 13, 2013

We're pleased to confirm that Empty Home Solutions LLP have come in as a Gold Supporter for The Empty Homes Conference 2013. Andrew Grim, an Empty Homes Network Executive Member since 2012, has been developing the company over several years, bulding close links with local authorities around Cheshre and the Wirral and now Wales. The delivery partnerships have been given added impetus by the ability of Empty Home Soluctions to access private capital funding. The Gold Supporter contribution from Empty Home Solutions LLP has allowed us for the first time ever to place an advert in Inside Housing (see p....

Conference line-up confirmed

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April 22, 2013

The line-up for The Empty Homes Conferencce 2013 has now been confirmed. We'll be sending out the latest version of...

EDMO and empty homes survey

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April 11, 2013

A final-year student at Kingston University is writing a dissertation on EDMOs and empty homes and would greatly welcome responses...

Leeds Empties - the inside story

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April 8, 2013

The thinking behind the approach we’re developing through Leeds Empties is that complex social problems – such as bringing back into use long-term empty homes – require a range of creative solutions. You’ll all know that as empty homes practitioners. To make real progress, we need a range of different interventions, each helping to make progress on a particular aspect of the problem at hand. Our background isn’t in empty homes. Over the last few years we’ve offered support to people setting up and running social enterprises – and in 2012 we decided to change how we worked to focus...

NAO reports on New Homes Bonus

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March 27, 2013

The National Audit Office has produced a report on the New Homes Bonus. As might be expected the report focuses...