The London Borough of Camden has written to Eric Pickles urging him to allow them to increase the Empty Homes Premium to 100% from the current 50%. This is in line with representations made by the Empty Homes Network during the consultation exercise and -…
The Association of Greater Manchester Authorities (AGMA) is building strong cross-boundary mechanisms in order to deliver results for the HCA Empty Homes programme. A task-and-finish group has been set up with the following purpose: To develop a generic Lease…
The Empty Homes Network has now published an updated Practitioner Guide to the New Homes Bonus. The last document published on this subject was the Guide produced during the Consultation period back in 2010. The new 38-page Guide has been substantially…
Please contribute to DCLG's research on our powers to deal with derelict buildings and land. Get to the survey through this her link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/6W85JRZ The survey will close on the 16th of August.. Shreena Kotecha from DCLG's…
The Welsh Government is leading the way in its efforts to create an effective national empty homes initiative, as disclosed by an evaluation report published in May by the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research at Sheffield Hallam University. You…
CLG officials have recently heard local authorities raise concerns about barriers to delivery of the HCA's Empty Homes Programme and are keen to find out more so that action can be taken if appropriate. Getting to a clear enough picture of what the…
I have been talking to James Fisher (pictured right), an Associate Director at the BRE, and Cliff Woodward of Westworks Ltd. about a huge empty homes scheme they are working up and are actively seeking partners to deliver. An arms-length company called Empty…
When the New Homes Bonus was introduced it was made clear that it would eventually become "revenue neutral" by virtue of being top-sliced from formula grant. This would produce a system of winners and losers where the winners would gain at the…
The results of the bids for Round 2 of the government's Empty Homes Programme were announced at the end June. Don Foster's announcement referred to £91million of funding. Of this £30 million was not new funding but Year 2 of the Clusters of Empties…
With George Clark's Ten Point Plan for Regeneration featuring in the government's £91million funding announcement at the end of June, it seems apt for EHN to launch its own *Good Practice Standards.*These standards have led a shadowy existence…
Mark Fisher (left) and Darryl Lawrence (right) both made presentations at a recent Council of Mortgage Lenders Buy-to-Let Conference, as a part of a project being led by Mark to highlight the advantages to lenders of leasing schemes and to challenge some of…
The Government has announced a £400million raid on New Homes Bonus in 2015-16 according to the Treasury announcement on infrastructure spending contained in Investing in Britain's Future. The money is being taken out of the direct control of local…
The National Empty Homes Loan scheme, funded as part of the Community Grants Programme and to be delivered via the charity Empty Homes, is expected to be launched soon. Dave Stott, the scheme Manager, has been visiting local authorities to discuss how it will…
David Ireland, Chief Executive of the charity Empty Homes (previously the Empty Homes Agency) has been awarded an O.B.E. in the Queen's Birthday Honours. David will be well known to all our Members, as a regular speaker at our Annual Conferences and…
