Judging the Empty Property Practitioner of the Year Award 2010, sponsored by Ad Hoc Property Management Ltd proved to be a difficult business, with some high quality submissions. The panel consisted of Keith Gunner of Southampton City Council, Britain's longest-serving Empty Homes Officer and himself a winner of an Empty Homes Agency Liftetime Achievement award, Nick Hilton of Ad Hoc Property Management, and David Gibbens (NAEPP Secretary).
After a split vote and some careful thought the panel decided that one award was not sufficient. The final results, then, were as follows:
Joint Winners
Steve Habgood
Group Manager Housing Improvement, London...
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Judging the Empty Property Practitioner of the Year Award 2010, sponsored by Ad Hoc Property Management Ltd proved to...
109 people attended the NAEPP Empty Homes conference in Birmingham. Our venue had a nominal capacity of 120, but 109...
We've received four nominations for the Empty Property Practitioner of the Year Award 2010, sponsored by Ad Hoc Property Management...
This 3rd Edition has been substantially updated in the light of the party manifestos that have now been published.
This is the text of the NAEPP response to the Guardian special feature on empty homes. This appeared on the...
Below is the text of NAEPP's letter to the Guardian following their two-page spread on Monday 5th April
"Dear Sir...
Shelter Scotland are recruiting an Empty Homes Co-ordinator for Scotland on a 2-year contract.
Their advert is shown below.
Empty...
We've just updated the NAEPP analysis of Council Tax Base data to take account of the figures for September 2009...
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September 20, 2009
Dear colleagues:
Here is the link to our recently updated Empty Property Strategy:
http://www.eastbourne.gov.uk/council/consultations/2009/empty-property-strategy/
Consultation is taking place and should...
The Empty Homes Network Guidelines for local authorities on nonitoring empty homes interventions documents are now in their final and approved versions, having been approved at the EHN(NAEPP) Executive Meeting of the 24th Febuary 2010. (Earlier versions are also available in the Information Library).
A slightly updated version was released in December 2010 to reflect the change of name from NAEPP to EHN.
We will be lobbying for the relevant information to be included in the annual HSSA return to give due recognition to local authority empty homes work.
If you are not a member of EHN then you can...
Here is a link to the latest (updated end of October 2009) version of our proposals for a National Empty...
Here is the first draft of our proposed National Action Plan for Empty Homes. It's time for NAEPP to move...
Don't forget to sign the Inside Housing petition on the No. 10 Downing Street website at:
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/EmptyPromise/
And take a...
