Residential Landlord - In brief - 30th July 2007
Residential Landlord - Dartford,UK
Hounslow Council is claiming to be the first local authority in London to secure an empty dwelling management order. It means a run down house in this ...

An end to compulsory purchase? - 27th August 2007
Big Issue - UK
A radical new approach to the regeneration of rundown areas could be tested in urban areas across the north...

DECISION ON DEMOLITION - 27th July 2007
This is Aberdeen - Derby,Scotland,UK
It was proposed the empty homes be demolished to make way for the new scheme. But the regeneration plans were branded as drab, featureless and a throwback ...

How to live in London for (a lot) less
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
Camelot Property source empty buildings awaiting redevelopment, renovation or demolition, make sure they meet safety requirements and then offer them at a ...

New housing paper makes big promises
Green Building Press - Carmarthenshire,Wales,UK
There would also be financial incentives for councils to reclaim empty properties - estimates of numbers of empty houses in the UK vary, but could be as ...

Pressure is building and there is little room for escape - 26th July 2007
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
She has listened to those who have called for the Government to make better use of Britain's 850000 homes that stand empty and to provide money up front ...

End of rate relief on empty plants attacked - 25th July 2007
ic CheshireOnline - UK
The Government hopes the Bill will stop investors sitting on derelict property and speed up the pace or regeneration both in Merseyside and the UK as a ...

Plans for 70000 affordable homes a year unveiled
24dash.com - Hereford,Herefordshire,UK
Local councils should "think carefully" about using some of their empty homes powers to bring some of the properties back into use, she added. ...

Everyone is entitled to a stake in the nation's soil and bricks - 24th July 2007
Guardian Unlimited - UK
Cooper will urge councils to use their 2006 powers to stop the buy-to-leave-empty market, where investors find the value grows more by leaving property ...

Yvette Cooper: You Ask The Questions - 23rd July 2007
Independent - London,England,UK
That's why councils need to take tougher action on long-term empty new homes. How will three million new houses contribute to reduce greenhouse omissions? ...

Solving a housing shortage - 23rd July 2007
The Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
To be truly effective, however, this Empty Homes Initiative must be, as the council indicates, one strand in a much wider strategy. ...

Holiday homes plan to tackle shortage of council housing - 22nd July 2007
The Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
Argyll and Bute Council is planning to adopt an Empty Homes Initiative to bring disused homes in need of repair up to standard to allow them to be brought ...

Owners of empty homes under fire - 21st July 2007
Richmond and Twickenham Times - UK
Councillor Mark Bowen, deputy leader of Hounslow Council, said: "Bringing empty homes back into use is a sensible way of making a contribution towards ...

Empty promises
New Statesman - London,England,UK
And it's a contagious delusion, despite the fact that homes for millions already exist. One study of the vast amount of unused or empty property around ...

The crisis in Britain's housing
Socialistworker.co.uk - London,UK
If you include second homes in the figures, then there are at least 680000 empty properties in England. It is the irrationality of the housing market that ...

Why not use the 420000 empty homes to solve the housing crisis?
Times Online - UK
According to the Property finder website, some 420000 homes stand empty in a state of disrepair. Surely these should be part of the solution to our housing ...

'Deliberate dereliction' of empty business premises
Norwich Union Risk Services - Birmingham,West Midlands,UK
Full details of the 'Modernising Empty Property Relief' consultation can be found on the DCLG website - see link above/right.

Government urged to target derelict homes
Mortgage Solutions - UK
Around 420000 dwellings stand empty and in a state of disrepair, according to the most recent research by propertyfinder.com. The number is the equivalent ...

Government launches empty property consultation paper
Mortgage Strategy - UK
The Department for Communities and Local Government says most property owners do not deliberately vandalise their empty property in a bid to avoid rates. ...

£1m contract to restore empty homes
Southport Visiter - Southport,Lancashire,UK
by Tony McDonough, Liverpool Daily Post LIVERPOOL builder AW Byrne has won a £1m contract to breathe new life into rows of unoccupied homes in and around ...

Consultation launched to revive empty buildings
24dash.com - Hereford,Herefordshire,UK
It will propose ways to tackle rate avoidance, where property owners deliberately vandalise their empty property, by removing thr roof for example. ...

Empty house set to become a home again
24dash.com - Hereford,Herefordshire,UK
Charlotte Ward, the council's Empty Property Officer says: "It is in substantial disrepair and the front of the property is very overgrown. ...

'Eyesore' house owner is sought
York Press - York,UK
"If the property is open to trespass, the council will make it secure, but the current empty homes policy is to not use other compulsory purchase orders but ...