The first draft of our consultation response on the Empty Homes Premium has now been published (follow this link for latest version). To contribute, please use our discussion forums.
CLG has for the first time published figures showing the contribution made by reductions in the number of empty homes...
St Helens Council in conjunction with Merseyside police are among the first to implement this new Legislation. Just two days...
Over the last couple of years the government has been re-configuring its figures on empty homes as part of a...
The High Court has ordered a judicial review of the government's handling of the £35million transition fund that was designed to ease some of the issues associated with the abrupt ending of the Housing Market Renewal programme. The issue here is that most of the money was used to fund continuing demolition of properties arousing considerable anger amongst organisations such as SAVE (Save Britain's Heritage) and Empty Homes who had been expecting that the transition fund would be used to rescue some of the homes from demolition (for example, through homesteading or other schemes). For background and some strongly expressed...
This is very tardy news-reporting given that this collection of essays was published back in Feburary 2012. It appears not...
The government is currently consulting on how the council tax collected in the form of Empty Homes Premium should afffect...
Don Foster (pictured right*), Liberal Democract MP for Bath, has replaced Andrew Stunell at the Department for Communities and Local...
As recently as the 12th July we published a news story reporting that the moves to encourage wholesale conversion of...
David Ireland of the charity Empty Homes tells us that he has had contact with a senior source at CLG....
There are still places available to authorities both inside and outside London at The London Empty Property Officer Forum, to be hosted by LB of Hounslow on the 25th September. Full details of the event can be found on our Event Listing including the latest agenda, featuring informative sessions on several different topics. Kirsten Firth, the South-East London Regional Empty Homes Co-ordinator, will be chairing the event, which promises to be valuable for Each London authority can send up to two delegates free. Additional places for London authorities and for delegates from outside London are available at a cost of...
The Stoke-on-Trent proposal to sell surplus houses to low-paid working people for £1 has now been given the go-ahead by...
Charity Hope Into Action has interviewd Peterborough City Council's Empty Homes Officer Adam Cliff about his work and you can...
The Camden FOI case continues to rumble on. This was a case where the London Borough of Camden had refused...
