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2013 Conference: your input welcome

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January 7, 2013

We're starting to prepare for the 2013 National Conference. As always our members' views on what they'd like the Conference to cover will be welcome. A survey spreadsheet is attached to this item and if you'd like to help shape the Conference then please download it, complete it (it will only take a couple of minutes) and return to events@ehnetwork.org.uk It would be good to get your views by the middle of next week (Tuesday 15th January).

National Audit Office looking into New Homes Bonus

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December 17, 2012

The National Audit Office has a current project to look into the New Homes Bonus. Their website states: This study examines the design of the scheme, and assesses early indicators of its impact. EHN has contacted the NAO and pointed out that its members have significant involvement in the empty homes aspect of the NHB reward. It is hoped that the NAO will respond be drawing on our experiences. The report is due to be published in Spring 2013.

Commercial conversions inching closer?

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December 17, 2012

An article on the Planning magazine website reports the introduction of a new clause into the Growth and Infrastructure Bill...

EHP exceptions - government scraps "genuinely for sale" proposal

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December 6, 2012

The government has listened to the representations made by the Empty Homes Network and other organisations and decided that homes that are "genuinely for sale or rent" should not be included in the exceptions from the Empty Homes Premium. The Empty Homes Network argued strongly that such an exception was neither practical nor justified on policy grounds, given that an owner would have had 2 years in which to bring the empty home back into use. This decision is welcome both for immediate practical reasons and because it shows that government does listen to consultatoin. The government does also seem...

LOTS more to come?

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December 2, 2012

Don Foster made quite a big point about commercial to residential conversions in his speech to the Empty Homes Conference...