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Why are they empty? 19th October 2007
Times Online - UK
Should I be worried that an empty property will attract crime? This is a major problem. Once a little thing goes wrong (such as a broken window), ...
Agency backs move on empty homes - 17th October 2007
Guardian Unlimited - UK
Homeowners are exempt from council tax for the first year a property is empty and up to a 50% discount thereafter. ...
New Measures To Revitalise Empty Homes - 11th October 2007
Empty Homes Agency - UK
David Ireland - The Empty Homes Agency welcomes the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s announcement that the government will introduce new measures to bring empty homes back onto the market...
Empty properties due to owners 'not knowing their options' - 3rd September 2007
Property Industry News - London,England,UK
... the Empty Homes Agency (EHA) has advised. Part of the problem is also because some owners do not want to become landlords and let the property out, ...
Number of empty homes falls in England - 3rd September 2007
AboutProperty.co.uk - London,UK
Figures released by campaigning charity The Empty Homes Agency, reveal there are now 282000 empty homes in the country, down from the same time last year. ...
Empty homes spark outrage - 20th August 2007
Express & Star - Wolverhampton,West Midlands,UK
Empty Homes Agency chief executive David Ireland said: "The homes themselves have an adverse impact on those who live around them, for example fly tipping ...
Use empty houses, Gordon Brown told
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
Mr Brown announced this week that he wants to build three million new homes by 2020 but the Empty Homes Agency, an independent charity, points out that some ...
Empty Homes Agency to speak at sheltered housing event
24dash.com - Hereford,Herefordshire,UK
John Earnshaw, from the Empty Homes Agency, will be among the speakers at a conference in the Ambassadors Hotel, Bloomsbury, on March 14. ...
Could empty homes on the North Circular usefully be used?
The third part of Jamie McCoy’s series about empty public buildings takes him to north London where hundreds of homes next to the North circular have stood empty for 30 years. Can any of the 3 areas featured this week actually be brought back into use? David Ireland from the Empty Homes Agency answers.
New website helps tackle 9,000 empty properties in North London
A new North London empty property website has been launched at www.nlep.co.uk.
There are approximately 9,000 privately owned empty properties across the six London boroughs of Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey, Islington and Westminster that have been lying unused for at least six months. Across these same six boroughs there are 68,500 households in housing need with another 5% living in overcrowded conditions.