The CLG's recently proposed Draft Statistics Plan 2011-12 may well scupper the HCA's widely-advertised "GIS mapping of empty homes".
This is because the Draft Plan proposes dropping the Electronic Survey of Empty Homes (ESEH). This populates the neighbhourhood statistics data on empty homes down to a census "Lower Super Output Area" level. The data is provided by local authorities from their council tax databases, presumably on a voluntary basis because coverage has never gone above 80% of the country as far as we know.
Unless HCA has negotiated independently with all the country's council tax authorities, we do not see...
Having reviewed the Temporary Empty Homes product developed by the Homes and Communities Agency as the successor to Temporary Social...
The HCA has now announced the successor scheme to Temporary Social Housing Grant, for homes leased by Registered Providers for...
The Empty Homes Network has released its Briefing on the £100million allocated to empty homes within the affordable housing budget...
We're really pleased to announce that Andrew Stunell MP, OBE has confirmed that he is able to speak at the Home Again conference on May 23rd in London. As Under-Secretary of State at CLG, Andrew is master-minding the coalition government's drive to fulfil its pledge to do more about empty homes.
We've had to change the programme around a bit to bring you this important session with Andrew, who will be cominig down from his North-West constituency, so whether you have booked or not we suggest you take a look at the current version of our event listing to download...
The agenda for the joint EH/EHN conference on May 23rd in London is moving towards its final shape.
the HCA...
The biggest empty homes conference ever is now planned for London on May 23rd. For the first time, the Empty...
It would have been a major surprise, given recent government press releases, if the New Homes Bonus had not gone...
We were pleased to receive a warm response from government minister Andrew Stunell following the letter we sent to him...
The Empty Homes Network has now made most of its Information Library free to guests. That means you will no...
About 10 days ago we followed up the letter we wrote to Grant Shapps in November about the £100Million captial for empty homes with a further one to Andrew Stunell where we offered more detailed proposals about how the money should be distributed. We accepted that the HCA was probably the best agency to distribute the funding, but we re-iterated our view that the immediate beneficiaries should be local authorities. We proposed that councils should bid for the money against well-researched valuie-for-money criteria. Our letter is in the Information Library here.
The Guardian newspaper has published an interesting report about self-help housing, pointing out its usefulness and its relevance for the...
In an announcement by Grant Shapps, the government is now actively floating its plans to help communities acquire surplus publicly-owned...
This is the final version of our consultation response (click link to access it) to the proposed amendments to the...
