EDITORIAL
Most practitioners will by now be aware that the Chancellor, Philip Hammond, has decided to allow local authorities in England to increase the Empty Homes Premium to 100%, bringing the maximum rate in line with Wales and Scotland. Better late than never: this is a welcome move.
Giving back
The amounts of money that the Empty Homes Premium can bring in are significant, and an emerging Empty Homes Network policy is that if local authorities are charging this premium they also have an obligation to re-invest some of the revenue raised into their local empty homes initiative. Otherwise, the...
EDITORIAL
The recently published report by the Independent Task Force into the Grenfell fire recovery makes frustrating reading. Leaving aside...
One of the few positives to emerge from the National Audit Office's investigation into New Homes Bonus - other than...
For the second year running (as mentioned in my blog post) our Cumbria Empty Property Group is producing a regional...
Cornwall Council offers a range of advice and assistance to help bring long-term empty properties back into use. Its Empty Property Loan scheme has loaned more than £2 million to directly enable over 100 residential units. See press release (issued as part of National Empty Homes Week) for details, and website for further information about other available help.
Bolsover District Council are celebrating Empty Homes Week by promoting its Empty Homes service and its achievements over the past...
North East Derbyshire District Council are celebrating Empty Homes week by holding an event for owners of empty properties across...
Building on the interim findings of the current Property Guardian Research project, Professor Caroline Hunter and Jed Meers at York...
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September 22, 2017
EHN members will be pleased to hear that Chris Skinner has been honoured by our local Law Society. There was...
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September 22, 2017
A letter has gone out to Chief Executives and Leaders of local authorities from Helen Williams of the charity Empty...
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September 21, 2017
I have just posted a discussion draft of a document that may be submitted to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry and that explores the relevance - or potential relevance - of empty homes for the disaster.
Given media reports of Grenfell survivors continuing to live in hotels, the frequent references to empty homes in Kensington and Chelsea, and the headlines when senior Labour politicians proposed requisitioning empty homes to meet the survivors' immediate housing needs, some kind of formal input from the Network seems essential.
Because we don't know the facts at this point, the document is oriented towards identifying the...
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Sadiq Khan, the London Mayor, has written to the government requesting powers to levy higher council tax on empty...
A new edition of the Empty Homes Agency analysis of empty homes figures has been published, reporting figures mainly derived...
This was a new category in our Empty Homes Awards and it produced more entries than we have ever had,...
