Inside Housing quotes the Government's Empty Homes Tsar who wants to quadruple Council Tax on empty homes.
http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/tenancies/councils-should-quadruple-tax-on-empty-homes/6526129.article
The people's responses act as a reminder that we work in a field with a very wide wide spectrum of opinion and understanding.
The response by 'Daedalus' is fabulous. It infers that Our Tsar's campaign might be a tad Marxist. I'm confused. A Tsar, Marxist? Daedalus can't be referring to Karl.
A news report on the Empty Homes website reveals that the popular Great British Property Scandal programmes presented by George...
We’re very pleased to announce that, as of 1st March 2013, all 22 of the Welsh local authorities have joined...
An innovative new project to explore new routes to community engagement around empty homes has taken a major step forward...
An Information Tribunal seems to have brought to a close the long-drawn out controversy around Freedom of Infomation requests for lists of empty homes. The Tribunal's conclusion, in its re-hearing of the appeal of Voyjas against the original decision by the Information Commissioner that Camden Council was justified in withholding information about empty homes that were not owned by individuals, was emphatically in favour of the Information Commissioner. and the Council The Tribunal concluded:
The relatively small weight that the public interest in disclosure bears does not, in our view, come close to equalling the public interest in preventing the...
The "Forgotten Spaces 2013" competition is being launched this week, inviting submissions for spaces in London and Preston. Planning magaizne...
Bookings for the 2013 Empty Homes Conference to be held in Birmingham on May 21st are now being taken and...
Eric Pickles has finally announced the on-off-on relaxation of conversion of commercial to residential use. The change is however restricted...
A story in the Financial Times published on Monday says that a move to make it easier to convert offices...
We're starting to prepare for the 2013 National Conference. As always our members' views on what they'd like the Conference...
A parliamentary answer by Mark Prisk, Housing Minisiter, confirms that most of the zero figures for empty homes returned to use in the provisional New Homes Bonus allocations are for authorities where the empties figures are being queried.
The parliamentary answer states:
For year 3, there are 29 authorities where we have asked for clarification of empty homes data provided, and have not included an empty homes component in their provisional allocations. We will take account of those authorities' responses when determining final allocations, and at that stage all authorities will receive an allocation that includes any empty homes element...
The government is consulting on extending the Primary Authority scheme to the Housing Health and Safety Rating System. Under the...
Although it has been said by Don Foster that there is no predetermined split of the £300million additional funding for...
The National Audit Office has a current project to look into the New Homes Bonus. Their website states: This study...
