Eric Pickles gave a written statement on Monday 10th October 2011, reported in Hansard, which covers the work of his Department and includes the following text relating to empty homes: On £100m and Empty Homes Premium Tackling the 700,000 empty homes across…
Mansfield Council is selling 7 derelict council-owned houses to ex-serviceman for £1 each, reports Ross McMillan in a 24dash.com's housing news item published on 27th September. The project is being managed by social business Training Regeneration…
It has now been confirmed by an announcement on 20th September 2011 by CLG that community groups are to be given access to the £100million allocated in the Affordable Homes Programme to empty homes. Community groups are not defined in the announcement but…
Here is the transcript of the section of Andrew Stunell's speech to the Liberal Democrat 2011 Conference that deals with empty homes: But the search for value for money means we must also get the most out of our existing stock too.That’s essential with…
The Housing Network section of the Guardian Professional pages is highlighting the views of practitioners in a story published today, Friday 23rd September. The story has been published in the lead-up to the forthcoming National Empty Homes Strategy. Our…
At his speech to the Liberal Democrat Conference today, Andrew Stunell announced that "we will shortly be consulting on charging extra council tax on homes that have been empty for more than two years." The Empty Homes Premium will be discretionary…
A new decision by the Information Tribunal re-inforces the Bexley decision that lists of empty homes owned by "non-individuals" should be released to the public under Freedom of Information legislation. As with the Tower Hamlets case in 2010, the…
Using last year's Council tax Base Form and the NHB data arising, English Councils brought 15,725 empty home back into use (over 5% of these were in humble Brum). The attached table shows how many empty homes were returned to use since 2004 if if one…
Production company Tiger Aspect is producing a 3-part campaigning series for Channel 4 about the issue of empty homes. The series, presented by architect George Clarke, will look at the problem of empty homes in the UK and the policies and issues connected…
The Executive is putting forward proposals to revise the Constitution of EHN which will mean among other things that Annual General Meetings will be replaced by Regular General Meetings, scheduled to happen every two years in the current draft. The discussion…
The House of Lords has fended off attempts to force council employees wanting to tender for council services under the Right to Challenge to set up a legal entity before proceeding with their bids, according to this story in the Housing and Property Law…
The Empty Homes Network has written to Camilla Sheldon of DCLG about the Government's forthcoming national strategy on empty homes. We've picked up some of the key points made at the Round Table meeting organised by DCLG in London on June 28th and…
This is an unusual news story. The "news" is your contributions about Final EDMOs. We want a place where people that have been involved with Final EDMOs - including those that don't eventually proceed but were close to doing so - can register…
The HCA has now revealed the main outlines of its £100M empty homes programme. The announcement, such as it was, came at a Round Table in L ondon on 28th June to discuss DCLG’s forthcoming Empty Homes Strategy. DCLG handed over to Gera Drymer of the HCA to…
