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. ...