It's sometimes interesting to see what goes on in other parts of the world around empty homes.
The story reported in the Minneapolis StarTribune shows that the UK's forthcoming empty homes premium is not draconian by some standards.....And some US politicians seem to be more outspoken than ours on the issue.
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After last year's bold claims that removing the need for planning permission for conversion of commercial properties to residential could...
The new Groups feature of our website, introduced earlier this year, is slowly starting to provide the benefits that we...
The Post-of-the-Month Award for March goes to Lynne Campbell of South Lakeland District Council for her blog, Life in the Lakes. It's great that Lynne has stuck her head above the parapet and offered us - and anyone else who encounters our website - an insight into the issues that confront empty homes practitioners day-to-day, whether practical or strategic.
The award is not for any particular blog entry (though these may indeed deserve individual awards) but for the fact that she has made the decision to blog in the first place. We hope that this will inspire other practitioners to...
Our programme of rewarding the best posts on the website have fallen somewhat behind - but nor have they been...
We have nearly filled one session of the Mental Capacity Training running in London on June 26th but we now...
The 2012 Empty Homes Practitioner of the Year Award, sponsored by Grafton (UK) Ltd. was won this year by Keith...
The National Empty Homes Conference held in Birmingham on 29th May proved a great success. In addition to the full...
Andrew Stunell will announce the results of the Clusters of Empties and Communities Grant Programme bidding rounds at the National...
According to a story in the Sunday Independent, Andrew Stunell is expected to use the EHN National Empty Homes Conference as the opportunity to announce the removal of empty homes discounts and exemptions as proposed during a consultation exercise in the Autumn. The key measures are expected to be:
the removal of the 6 month exemption class "C" for unfurnhished empties
the removal of the minimum 10% discount for second homes
the introduction of an Empty Homes Premium for homes empty longer than 2 years
The particular set of measures can be inferred from the "£420million" in the headline -...
The latest list of delegates to the National Empty Homes Conference is attached to this news story - if you...
The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 received royal assent on 1st May as a consequence of...
If you are registered to attend the National Empty Homes Conference on May 29th in Birmingham you should have now...
