There's been an exchange in Parliament about empty homes, with Andrew Stunell putting forwards the Government perspective. The brief debate can be found here. The minister specifically mentions EDMOs as a tool that local authorities can use. He mentions…
We've prepared a draft response to the BIS consultation on Managing Borrowing and Dealing with Debt . You can download our response here. If you have any comments they can be placed in our Enforced Sale forum here.
The first draft of our consultation response is now available for comment. Please download from here and make your comments in the forum here. Please note that the latest second version was loaded at 9.00 a.m. Thursday 25th Novermber. The text is…
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…
EHN has produced a Briefing document about the government's New Homes Bonus proposals for empty homes pracittioners and other interested parties, looking at how it is designed to work the practical implications for empty homes work. Whilst we'd like…
CLG has published its Business Plan 2011-15 - the successor to the Draft Structural Reform Plan last published in July 2010. This shows how the empty homes agenda is moving forwards. "Home on a Farm" schemeThe first reference is at 4.4., concerning…
Camarthenshire certainly know how to build public support for what they do. This story has appeared many times over the last few days and has been picked up nationally eg on the houcepricecrash forum. The BBC report is a good example of how it has hit the…
A recent blog post from the Hasledon and Hyndburn Labour MP Graham Jones indicates that there will be consultation on including empty homes in the New Homes bonus. He also suggests there will be consultation the £100million for empty homes. Good news - but…
The Empty Homes Network has written to Grant Shapps asking for the £100million for empty homes announced in the Comprehensive Spending Review in October to be distributed directly to local authorities to boost their empty homes initiatives and support the…
This (see library item) is the first draft of the Empty Homes Network's contribution to the review of empty homes being conducted by the government. As with last year's National Action Plan proposals (which this effectively replaces) comments of…
This week's story, Homes Devalued Claim by Blot on Road from Southend, is a good reminder that local people - and newspapers - see EDMOs as a way to tackle empty homes. It would be good if the government could set asiide its ideological issues with EDMOs…
The association between crime and empty homes is well established. Arson is the worst-case scenario - but this story from the Lancashire Telegraph, including an entire terrace of homes being torched, reminds us that the threat is a real one.
The issue of publicly-owned empties is always one that arouses strong feelings. No doubt there are many aspects of this story which are not found in this on-line debate but the underlying messge to councils is clear enough: don't let homes stand empty if…
It's good to see the day-to-day successes of empty homes practitioners featuring in the local press - and highlighting how its possible to engage even with reluctant owners and encourage them to bring their homes back into use. There is even a rare photo…
