Data reveals high number of empty properties in Cardiff
The Guardian - 9th July 2010
Some data withheld David Ireland from the Empty Homes Agency said the data does not proportionately represent the true figures for each ward – as areas like ...
Who's guarding property guardians?
The Guardian - 9th July 2010
At the same time there were 75706 empty houses in London and 651993 in England as a whole in 2009, according the Empty Homes Agency (EHA). ...
Goverment urged to act on empty homes commitment
24dash (press release) - 5th July 2010
Give the Homes and Communities Agency greater flexibility so that homelessness charities and other community groups can refurbish empty homes. 3. ...
Reinvent terraces as eco-housing, says report
Building Design - 18 June 2010
David Ireland, chief executive of the Empty Homes Agency, lent his support, saying: “Terraced houses are amazingly adaptable and with imagination can be ...
Does Britain really face a housing shortage?
MoneyWeek - 18 June 2010
A recent survey by The Guardian, with input from the Empty Homes Agency (Emptyhomes.com), put the figure at 450000. Other sources quote 850000. ...
Coalition reveals populist side with a 'manifesto' of compromise
Times Online, May 21 2010
Bringing empty homes into use: a soft win for the Lib Dems on a non-contentious issue that did not feature in the Tory housing manifesto. ...
Housing must be a top priority for the new government - Times Online
Times Online - May 7 2010
Fortunately for MPs assailed by statistics, the Empty Homes Agency has some cost -effective solutions. Housing associations should be supported in a drive to ...
Blighted by an empty house - for 12 years: With 650000 unoccupied homes, why ...
Daily Mail - May 3 2010
Across England as a whole, estimates the Empty Homes Agency, there are 651000 properties lying unoccupied - although that does include properties undergoing ...
Making A House A Home
David Ireland, CEO of the Empty Homes Agency, describes how new ideas and past experience are helpingto utilise nearly one million empty properties in the UK...
Bootle, Merseyside « Street Fighters
... April 2010: Empty Homes Agency, Big Issue in the North ... I have to say, I find it quite unbelievable that these Victorian homes in Bootle, Merseyside, ...
Lib Dem Daisy hails new homes triumph
Reading Post - April 14 2010
Cllr Benson, who is also Lib Dem housing spokesperson and a board member of the national campaigning charity the Empty Homes Agency, said: “I launched my ...
Converting empty homes 'would benefit the housing market'
Houseladder, 7th April 2010
David Ireland, chief executive of the Empty Homes Agency, states that the increasing number of unused homes is a worry and steps taken to reduce this would ...
Half a million houses are lying empty, Guardian research show
The Guardian - Apr 5, 2010
Charities are demanding an urgent rethink of government housing policy after a Guardian investigation found that almost half a million homes are lying empty in the UK – enough to put a roof over the heads of a quarter of the families on council house waiting lists.
Les Bonner | Liberal Democrats have pledged to bring thousands of ...
By Les Bonner
The research shows, as might be expected, that the number of empty homes is highest in urban areas, where population density is greatest. David Ireland at the Empty Homes Agency, said inner city brownfield sites, as well as vacant ...
Eyes of social housing sector on 'cross-boundary' empty homes pilot
24dash - Jon Land - Mar 23, 2010
David Ireland, chief executive of the Empty Homes Agency said: “MVMP has been very successful in revitalising the pit villages in the area, and has gained a ..
Old Peasholme Homeless Centre should not be demolished say Greens
The Press, York - Mar 15, 2010
His party has reported the demolition move to the independent charity Empty Homes Agency, which campaigns for unoccupied properties to be brought back into ...
VAT on renovations
Times Online (blog) - Mar 10, 2010
The Empty Homes Agency welcomed the cut, saying that it provided a real opportunity to redevelop at reduced cost the 940000 properties which are sitting ...
Promising Progress
Inside Housing - David Ireland - 29/01/10
Inside Housing’s award-nominated Empty Promise campaign launched a year ago this week. There’s been plenty to celebrate since, says David Ireland, chief executive of the Empty Homes Agency
Priced-out Londoners turn to empty homes
Expatica – 17/01/10
...district of Denmark Hill, David Ireland, chief executive of campaign group Empty Homes Agency, made the same point as he stood outside a row...
Art's great squatting revolution
Times Online – 16/01/10
...demolished or revamped. David Ireland, the chief executive of the Empty Homes Agency, a pressure group that campaigns for change in the policies...
Property guardian schemes offer quirky homes at low rents. But not for long
The Guardian, Jan 9 2010
Then it risks being stripped of its valuable pipework and damaged beyond immediate use," says David Ireland of the Empty Homes Agency, which works with ...
