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Orbis Protect joins forces with E.ON to bring private homes back into use

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August 12, 2019

Leading property protection provider Orbis Protect has joined forces with E.ON, one of the UK's top energy suppliers, to support its drive to tackle the UK’s housing shortage by bringing empty homes back into use. Orbis Protect is partnering with E.ON on the scheme and will provide specialist clearance and cleaning of any empty properties, externally and internally. With 605,000 empty homes in England – more than 200,000 of which have been declared long-term empty properties – the scheme is offering help to owners with properties that haven’t been lived in from anywhere between six months to 10-15 years. Guy...

2019 Conference Main Sponsor Announced

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July 17, 2019

The Empty Homes Network are pleased to announce this year’s Conference main sponsor as Auction House UK.  Operating from 40...

2019 Conference Line-up - Updated

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July 5, 2019

Planning and preparation is well under way for the National Empty Homes Conference, to be held in Birmingham on Wednesday...

Projects and Empty Homes Officers sought for the BBC's Empty Housing Scandal, Series 2

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June 14, 2019

Production company TwoFour are seeking Empty Homes Projects and Officers for a second series of their successful BBC1 Series, The Empty Housing Scandal. After producing a very popular 5 episode series highlighting both the scale of the problem, as well as the incredible work done by officers up and down the Country, TwoFour have been commissioned to produce a second series, this time running for 10 episodes. Steve Grogan, of TwoFour: BBC - The Empty Housing Scandal Calling all Empty Homes professionals! After the success of our BBC1 series The Empty Housing Scandal earlier this year and our previous five...

Conference Date Announced!

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June 10, 2019

The date for this year's National Empty Homes Conference has been announced, and will be held on Wednesday 25th September,...

'Rising Star' Award 2018 - Winner

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April 8, 2019

A newly created award for the 2018 Conference, The Rising Star Award was sponsored by Orbis Protect (www.orbisprotect.com), who specialise...

Empty Homes Innovation Award 2018

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December 6, 2018

Sponsorship of this year’s Innovation Award was provided by E.ON Empty Home Solutions, along with the sponsorship of the Awards Ceremony. Perhaps it’s a shame that this barred them from nominating themselves for the Award because, as innovation goes, a giant energy company involving itself in the gritty work of bringing empty homes back into use is certainly up there with the most original initiatives we’ve seen. The outcomes of the partnerships being forged between the E.ON empty homes team and local authorities will be awaited with great interest. But we can already say for certain that never previously have...

Empty Homes Partnership Award - #2

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November 19, 2018

Following on from Friday’s news item, here is the other winning submission for the 2018 Partnership Award. It comes from...

Empty Homes Partnership Award - #1

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November 16, 2018

This Award was relaunched in 2018 with the very welcome support of Cromwood Social, represented by Abdus Saleh at October's...