An article on the Planning magazine website reports the introduction of a new clause into the Growth and Infrastructure Bill which allows for a "Prior Approval" process to be adopted by local authorities in some (unspecified) cases.
This is interpreted by an expert quoted in the article as follows:
Duncan Field, planning partner at law firm Wragge and Co, said he believed the new clause had been introduced as part of the proposal to allow permitted development rights to change from commercial to residential use.
He said: "Reading between the lines this clause addresses the disquiet expressed by some local...
Graham Jones, Labour MP for Haslingden and Hyndburn and David Ireland of the Empty Homes Agency have engaged in an...
The London Rebuilding Society has launched a new scheme to help bring empty homes in London back into use, drawing...
This is an unusual news story. The "news" is your contributions about refused EDMO applications.
We want a place where...
George Clarke has now delivered what he calls a "manifesto for change" to the government in his role as Empty Homes Adviser.
Claiming this as "a momentous day", George's website records that
"For months now George has been leading the discussions and investigations into the growing problem of homes going to waste at a time when more and more homes are needed."
We do not know whether this is to be the only outcome of George's efforts or whether other proposals will be forthcoming, given that the Manifesto focuses exclusively on area regeneration programmes such as those initiated under Labour's...
The government has listened to the representations made by the Empty Homes Network and other organisations and decided that homes...
Don Foster made quite a big point about commercial to residential conversions in his speech to the Empty Homes Conference...
CLG has confirmed that the bidding guidelines for a share of the £300million boost to affordable housing and empty homes...
Here is the text of Don Foster's speech to the Empty Homes Conference on Monday 26th in London (as drafted,...
The government has published its response to the consultation on what should happen to empty homes premium receipts.
They have...
On the day that the government's statutory instrument to make it harder for local authorities to obtain Empty Dwelling Management Orders came into force, it was reported that South Tyneside Council had secured 11 EDMOs at a single hearing of the Residential Property Tribunal. The homes will be refurbished with finance in part from the government's £100million empty homes fund.
More details can be found on the South Tyneside website here and in the Shields Gazette here.
South Tynside's Keith Shields won the Grafton Empty Homes Practitioner of the Year Award at the Empty Homes Network National Empty Homes Conference...
The familiar Communiites and Local Government website has now been replaced by the developing single portal for government, GOV.UK. DCLG...
BBC breakfast time on the 14th November featured a Fresh Horizons scheme in Huddersfield, funded out of the government's £100million...
The Empty Homes Network has recently sent out a Freedome of Information Request to English housing authorities. This is the...
