Empty pub rates hit imminent
Morning Advertiser - UK
Regulations have been laid in parliament to enable the introduction of reforms to empty property rates on April 1. The most significant change is the ...

Out with the new and in with the old
News Shopper - UK
No Use Empty scheme by Kent County Council has been running for three years and has bought 30 per cent of empty homes back into use. ...

MP and council leader call for more Elevate funding
Burnley Citizen - UK
Another 146 homes will be acquired, using the cash, and 92 properties will be demolished, as part of an empty homes initiative. ...

Money wasted on empty council homes - 23rd October 2007
Suffolk Evening Star - Ipswich,England,UK
A REVIEW is under way today after it emerged thousands of pounds were being wasted as council homes stand empty for weeks on end. ...

Rental market at risk from ending of rates relief
ic Wales - United Kingdom
The Westminster Government has delivered another blow to the property industry over empty-premises rate reforms, hitting it with a £1bn tax bill six months ...

A lukewarm reception for plan to build 5000 homes
Belfast Telegraph - United Kingdom
... Ms Ritchie said she was determined to achieve more than simply "managing" the housing crisis and also outlined plans to bring empty homes back into use.

...Laws to cut empty property relief confirmed
Regen.net (subscription) - London,England,UK
Owners of empty commercial properties face paying full business rates on their premises under legislation due to come into force on April 1. ...

New measures to 'breathe life' into deprived areas
24dash - Hereford,UK
Announced in the 2007 Budget, empty property rates are designed to revitalise run-down communities and ensure the effective and efficient use of buildings. ...

Housing co-op member rejects council’s claims
Richmond and Twickenham Times - UK
Our house was empty for 12 years before we, as a group of young people struggling to find affordable accommodation in London, succeeded in getting agreement ...

Empty homes provide training opportunity for firefighters
24dash - Hereford,UK
Empty houses awaiting demolition on Crabtree Place in Cheltenham gave the perfect training opportunity to Gloucestershire Fire Service. ...

Ritchie to the rescue with plan for 5000 new homes
Belfast Telegraph - United Kingdom
Ms Ritchie also unveiled details of schemes to allow existing social housing tenants the chance to buy a stake in their homes and to bring empty homes back ...

begins on flats at children's home site
Peterborough Evening Telegraph - Peterborough,England,UK
The building, on the corner of St Paul's Road and Peveril Road, in New England, Peterborough, had stood empty for almost a decade. ...

Historic cottage set to be saved
Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph - Kettering,England,UK
Chris Mallender, the council's chief executive, said: "The council's position is we have a policy of bringing empty homes back into habitable use. ...

Affordability is key for homes
Dorset Echo - England,UK
... step in and build affordable homes itself and a dedicated officer is being recruited to help bring some of Bournemouth's 2022 empty homes back into use. ...

Cornwall holiday-homes outnumber local houses
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
... house prices are being pushed out of reach of most locals, as well as complaints that many of the second homes are lying empty for much of the year. ...

Anger as planners give thumbs up to 37 homes
Halifax Evening Courier - UK
But objectors say there are already too many empty homes in Calderdale. Stephen Cunningham, of Moorlands Road, Greetland, who objected to the Ashfield Road ...

Hope lies in empty homes
Times Online - UK
Two years ago 83 per cent of empty homes in London were owned by private landlords. The London homelessness charity Broadway (www.broadwaylondon.org) is ...

Hope lies in empty homes
Times Online - UK
Two years ago 83 per cent of empty homes in London were owned by private landlords. The London homelessness charity Broadway (www.broadwaylondon.org) is ...

UK housing market close to collapse, analyst
Times Online - UK
UP TO 35% of Liverpool’s new city centre apartments are lying empty, as an already flooded property market struggles to attract buyers. ...

Empty house boost for young disabled people
Evening Leader - Wrexham,Wales,UK
The property, at 24 Ryeland Street, will undergo major improvement and renovation work under Flintshire Council's empty homes scheme and will be converted ...

Higher taxes on empty buildings
Liverpool Daily Post - Liverpool,UK
As a result, empty rate costs for owners and developers of office or shop premises will double. Moreover, owners of unoccupied industrial property, ...

Progress on stricken London Road
St. Albans Observer - St. Albans,England,UK
By Alex Lewis STORE giant Tesco has pledged to repair empty homes which have marred London Road for years and get people living there as soon as possible. ...

Rate alert over cost of empty properties
ic Wales - United Kingdom
... or industrial buildings will no longer receive a reduction in their rates bill if their property is empty for longer than three or six months. ...

Shrinking city
Lancashire Evening Post - Preston,England,UK
By David Coates A growing swathe of empty shops are "shrinking" Preston city centre, according to retailers and property owners. They believe the number of ...

Government accused of property waste
Property Week News - London,England,UK
The Tories called the Government 'hypocritical', pointing out that it was cutting tax relief on empty properties owned by private businesses.

Luxury homes '£130m wasted space'
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
But the "grace-and-favour" homes, each worth up to £15 million, represent only a tiny part of the government properties standing empty, which belong to ...

Council combats empty shop issue
Eastbourne Today - Eastbourne,England,UK
By Annemarie Field A property landlord in Terminus Road has been encouraged to actively market his empty properties in a council-led initiative to improve ...

‘Fill up area’s empty houses’
Huddersfield Examiner - Huddersfield,UK
Kirklees will set its budget on February 27 and Clr Battye wants to increase the amount spent on empty homes from £1m to £2m. He hopes money can be spent on ...

Appeal on problem houses
Liverpool Echo - UK
Wirral’s Empty Property Hotline, which targets derelict buildings that attract anti-social behaviour and vandalism, wants to trace the owners of four ...

Planning application put in for empty properties
Scarborough Evening News - UK
County Cllr Michelle Andrew had been looking into the possibility of converting the property into a youth drop-in centre before Yorkshire Coast Homes ...

Labour member of Parliament for Hastings and Rye
Hastings Observer - Hastings,England,UK
We also have some 800 dwellings (mostly flats, it must be said) that have been empty for more than six months and, whilst that compares with 1400 such units ...

Insurance premiums will soar unless the Government stops building ...
Daily Mail - UK
“Ministers must also ensure that empty homes are brought back into use, including the million empty homes above shops and commercial premises, ...

Property market watch
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
The rise in identity theft has exposed landlords and owners of empty property to potentially large losses. Sales and letting agents are being warned about ...

Landlords urged to put empty homes back into use
Burnham & Highbridge Weekly News - Burnham,England,UK
"We, as a council, believe that having an effective solution to bringing empty homes back into use and also reducing the incidences of property being empty ...

Make use of empty homes to ease crisis
The Argus.co.uk - Brighton,UK
That figure could be reduced by 13 per cent if the homes empty for longer than six months were used. Hastings has more empty properties than anywhere else ...

Grass roots rise against the eco-towns - 8th February 2008
Guardian Unlimited - UK
There are 3000 planning applications which have already been given for new homes that haven't even been built yet in Selby. There are 2400 empty properties ...

Empty homes provide fire practice - 8th February 2008
BBC News - UK
Empty houses awaiting demolition on a Cheltenham estate will be used for firefighters' training exercises. Gloucestershire Fire Service will send teams of ...

Affordable homes in Castle Morpeth? - 5th February 2008
Morpeth Herald - Morpeth,UK
... from bringing empty properties back into use and working with other districts to create more traveller sites to ensuring all homes reach the ...

Homes stood empty in Burnham - 5th February 2008
Weston & Somerset Mercury - eston-super-Mare,England,UK
The council hopes to work with other organisations to remove empty houses and replace decaying properties with refurbished homes.

Shame of Worthing's empty homes - 5th February 2008
Worthing Herald - Worthing,England,UK
WITH 900 empty private properties in the borough, Worthing Council aims to take a tougher line in getting such homes filled by people needing better ...

Action call over empty council housing stock - 4th February 2008
Wrexham Evening Leader - Wrexham,England,UK
"I can't understand why we are deliberately leaving property empty. There are also people on the housing list who may not be homeless, but are living in ...

Another brick in the wall - 4th February 2008
Mortgage Solutions - UK
The second change is aimed at people bringing empty houses back into use. From 1 January 2008, a reduced rate of VAT of 5%, rather than 17.5%, is payable on ...

Think tank for vacant council houses - 4th February 2008
Morpeth Herald - Morpeth,UK
Councillors have been asked to form a scrutiny working group to identify local issues and draw up an Empty Property Strategy. The work, which was requested ...

Changes aimed to cut empty properties - 3rd February 2008
Wiltshire Times - UK
From April 1, the Government is removing the current empty property relief from business rates. Industrial and warehouse properties will also be subject to ...

Step inside Edwardian delight - 2nd February 2008
ic Newcastle.co.uk - Newcastle,England,UK
It had stood empty for a few years, so needed quite a lot of work.” Built in 1902 from local stone, the detached property has a wealth of period features ...

Councils team up to re-use empty properties - 1st February 2008
Kent Online - United Kingdom
... Sevenoaks councils have joined forces with Kent County Council (KCC) to launch the West Kent branch of No Use Empty: the Kent Empty Property Initiative. ...

Demand continues in commercial sector - 1st February 2008
Halifax Evening Courier - UK
Companies seeking to rent property will undoubtedly have more choice than their counterparts seeking to own property. The Government's change to Empty ...