We have drafted a response to Eric Pickles' statement about forthcoming changes to the EDMO legislation. This can be downloaded from here.
We have been invited by DCLG to feed into the amendment process. This document focuses on the practical changes that we think might usefully be made and that do not conflict with the overall government stance on EDMOs. This response has been requested by close-of-business on January 14th - there will be no formal consultation. Thus if you have any comments please submit them now by commenting in the EDMO forum.
We have not attempted at this stage...
Eric Pickles has announced that EDMO powers are to be curbed. This was first reported by the BBC (see http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12127328)...
Local Sustainable Homes: How to Make Them Happen in Your Community, by Chris Bird
Transition Books (2010) £14.95, paperback, 240pp,...
News stories like this one about Oxford's first EDMO of a home empty for 15 years are useful not only...
The Empty Homes Network has now submitted its response to the government's consultation on the New Homes Bonus (downloadable from here).
We recognise that the inclusion of long-term empty homes in the calculation of housing supply will provide a very definite boost to empty homes work, whilst at the same time recognising that the proposal is far from perfect. For example, we identify that "data cleansing" may play a disproportionate role in the amount of bonus distributed. We continue to promote the idea of government adding value to local authority initiatives by direct and targeted funding as a better alternative.
The proposal floated in recent Empty Homes Network publications to seek a review of Council Tax exemption class "C" on...
We've now submitted our Consultation Response to the BIS Call for Evidence about Borrrowings and Debt. The deadline for submissions...
There's been an exchange in Parliament about empty homes, with Andrew Stunell putting forwards the Government perspective. The brief debate...
We've prepared a draft response to the BIS consultation on Managing Borrowing and Dealing with Debt . You can download...
The first draft of our consultation response is now available for comment. Please download from here and make your comments...
The latest government consultation on the future of social housing has just been published. Entitled Local decisions: a fairer future for social housing it lays out significant changes in the forms of social tenancy that will be available, confirms the intention to focus on the development of intermediate rented housing, outlines the reform to the Housing Revenue Account...and more.
The consultation is also described as covering "Empty Homes" (page 7). Section 3 does indeed deal exclusively with Empty Homes. It describes empty properties as "a blight on local communities and a waste of housing stock which we cannot afford.". It...
EHN has produced a Briefing document about the government's New Homes Bonus proposals for empty homes pracittioners and other interested...
CLG has published its Business Plan 2011-15 - the successor to the Draft Structural Reform Plan last published in July...
Camarthenshire certainly know how to build public support for what they do. This story has appeared many times over the...
