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Property industry renews call for VAT cut on home refurbs - 19th March 2008
Contract Journal - UK
Empty Homes Agency’s (EHA) report ‘New Tricks With Old Bricks’ found housebuilding emits more than three times the amount of carbon dioxide than previously ...
Reusing old homes saves carbon, says report - 18th March 2008
Regen.net (subscription) - London,England,UK
A report by campaign body the Empty Homes Agency (EHA) has called for measures to facilitate the reuse of empty buildings in a bid to tackle climate change. ...
Call to drop VAT on repairs amid eco-concerns
The Architect's Journal - 18th March 2008
Fresh calls are being made on the government to ditch VAT on repairs and renovation to existing buildings, this time from the British Property Federation (BPF).
Demolishing old houses and building new adds to climate change - 17th March 2008
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
Researchers commissioned by the Government-funded Empty Homes Agency compared the amount of carbon dioxide given off in building new homes and in ...
Environmental benefits of refurbishing empty homes overlooked - 17th March 2008
Environmental Data Interactive - UK
This is the conclusion of research published this week by the independent campaign group the Empty Homes Agency. While a single-interest pressure group like ...
Building new green homes is not the answer - 17th March 2008
Green Building Press - Llandysul,Wales,UK
Buying or building a new eco home might not be as kind to the planet as we think, according to a report by the Empty Homes Agency. ...
Liverpool City Council accused of neglecting historic houses - 17th March 2008
Liverpool Daily Post - Liverpool,UK
The Empty Homes Agency, an independent charity, described the tale of how Prescot Road and Prescot Drive slid into a derelict state over a decade, ...
Home is where the heat is: why old can be good as new - 16th March 2008
The Observer - UK
The Empty Homes Agency compared three new-build homes with three refurbished ones and found very little difference between them in the amount of CO2 given ...
Older homes 'emit less carbon' - 14th March 2008
Times Online - UK
The report, compiled by the Empty Homes Agency with help from the Building and Social Housing Foundation, indicates that the embodied carbon - the carbon ...
RE-USING OLD BUILDINGS GREENER THAN NEW BUILD IN FIGHT AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE - 13th March 2008
New research published by the Empty Homes Agency with support from the Building and Social Housing Foundation today [Monday] suggests that the advantages of older, existing housing are being seriously overlooked in the fight against climate change.
Country living - no thanks? - 7th March 2008
Assetz News - Stockport,England,UK
The finding about empty homes will find plenty of supporters, not least among the Empty Homes Agency. Addressing the aforementioned Chartered Institute of ...
MOD Empty Homes on the Today Programme- 6th March 2008
The MOD spend millions of pounds every year keeping homes empty incase service families need them. Angus Crawford reports.
Secretary of State Orders the Sale of Wasted Council Homes - 6th March 2008
The Empty Homes Agency welcomes Hazel Blear’s decision this week to order the sale of a row of large empty houses owned by Liverpool council...
Renovation Of Empty Homes "more Energy Efficient"
Start Again Finance - UK
Those undertaking mortgage comparisons who are looking for a more environmentally-friendly options may be interested in advice from the Empty Homes Agency. ...
Empty homes laws attacked
mform - UK
According to the Empty Homes Agency (EHA), "perverse" incentives are currently in place which mean landlords can leave properties unoccupied at little or no ...
New empty homes incentives urged - 23rd January 2008
Property News - London,England,UK
The amount of empty property in the UK can be reduced more easily if councils are given greater incentives by the government, the Empty Homes Agency (EHA) ...