With Empty Homes week edging closer, the Empty Homes Network shares some practical advice for Local Authorities looking to expand their reach, exposure and engagement with empty home owners, complainants and the surrounding communities.Internal Communications & EngagementProviding an up-to-date picture of the empty homes figures locally to you, a Statistical Update presents a picture from which much of your communications and promotion of the service can be based on. This update can be broken down into total empty, long-term empty, numbers being charged the premium and unoccupied exemptions, or specific to the target market such as numbers within wards to...
Action on Empty Homes, the national campaigning organisation for bringing empty homes back into use, have announced the dates for...
As planning and preparation for the Empty Homes Conference 2023 continues to gather pace, unforeseen circumstances have led to a...
Join Fraser and Fraser with guest speaker Andrew Lavender for webinar: Challenges to Enforcement Notices: “Forewarned is Forearmed”Andrew Lavender is...
Action on Empty Homes have appointed Rebecca Moore to the role of Director, following the departure of Will McMahon in November. Rebecca joins Action on Empty Homes from a background working across sectors in arts and culture, education, and social entrepreneurship.On her appointment, Rebecca said, "It’s an exciting time to be taking over as Director. The issues surrounding empty homes touch on important elements in everyone’s lives right now. The low availability of the right kind of housing for one thing. The right kind of housing means homes that are affordable for the vast majority of people in this country....
We pleased to share the release of the Empty Homes Network’s training and events calendar for 2023.The Empty Homes Network...
The Empty Homes Network are excited to announce the return to an in-person Conference for 2023. After two successful years...
Following the release of the Council Taxbase 2022 statistics, The Empty Homes Network has taken a closer look at the...
The Council Taxbase dataset, which provides statistical information on empty, second and exempt homes across England has been released for...
Job Title: Empty Property OfficerLocal Authority: Merton CouncilGrade/Salary: ME13 £42,795 - £45,834 per annum Term: 2 year fixed term contractThe...
The deadline for submissions for this year’s Empty Homes statistics survey has been extended until Friday 18th November. Further to the anticipated release of the Council Taxbase statistics 2022, the Empty Homes Network are encouraging empty homes officers and members to complete the short statistical questionnaire.Working directly in partnership with Local Authorities and their Empty Homes Officers, the research aims to gather information and statistics from databases held ‘in-house’ by officers and teams nationwide in order to provide a direct comparison with those statistics, soon to be submitted by Councils and released nationally through their CTB forms.By following on from...
Following on from our survey in 2021, The Empty Homes Network are pleased to announce the release of its second...
The Empty Homes Network has returned from Chicago, having thoroughly enjoyed the National Conference highlighting vacancy, abandonment and derelict properties...
The Empty Homes Network are excited to be in Chicago this week, to attend this year’s Reclaiming Vacant Properties Conference...
