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Oct 21, 2024 · It breaks down the types of empty homes in England from 2018 to 2022 into: homes empty for less than six months, long term empty homes, properties charged the empty homes premium, second homes, and those with unoccupied exemptions.
Nov 13, 2023 · Bringing empty homes back into use can play a key part of local strategies to meet housing need. Not only are empty homes a wasted resource, they are often the subject of complaints and...
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- The Impact of Empty Homes on Communities
- How Many Empty Homes?
- Powers to Tackle Empty Homes
- Government Policy 2010-2015
- Approaches Since 2015
High levels of empty properties are recognised as having a serious impact on the viability of communities. As the number of empty properties within an area increases, so can the incidence of vandalism, which acts as a further disincentive to occupation. Tackling empty properties can have social, regenerative, financial, and strategic benefits.
The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) publishes data on homes classed as empty for Council Tax purposes. In October 2022, there were 676,304 recorded empty homes in England. This is a 3.6% increase on the previous year’s total. 248,149 were classed as ‘long-term vacant’ properties (vacant for more than six months with som...
Local authorities have a range of powers and incentives at their disposal to bring empty homes back into use. These include, Empty Dwelling Management Orders, council tax exemptions and premiums, enforced sales, compulsory purchase, and measures to secure the improvement of empty properties. A range of other initiatives and incentives are aimed at ...
The Coalition’s Programme for Government included a commitment to “explore a range of measures to bring empty homes into use.” Specific funding was made available for this purpose, including £156 million allocated between 2012 and 2015 under two rounds of the Empty Homes Programme. An additional £60 million was allocated as part of the Clusters of ...
The Shared Ownership and Affordable Homes Programme 2016-21 did not include separate funding for empty homes. In 2015, the Conservative Government said the £216 million of funding provided between 2012 and 2015 was intended to “provide a push in the right direction,” there were no plans to provide additional funding. The Affordable Homes Programme ...
- Wendy Wilson, Hannah Cromarty, Cassie Barton
- 2018
Dec 2, 2015 · Despite widespread anxiety about a shortage of housing supply, there are 610,123 empty homes in England, according to the government. Of these, 205,821 have been unoccupied for six months or...
It shows full lists outlining numbers of long-term empty homes as well as data on second-homes. We breakdown Council Taxbase data and here you can see an overview of where most homes are out of use in England
Nov 21, 2023 · Overall, taking into account the number of short-term empty homes, second homes, empty homes paying a council tax premium and unoccupied homes that are exempt from council tax, more than one million dwellings are empty in England.
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There are multiple estimates of the number of empty homes in England and Wales, which tell us different things. Council Tax numbers of empty homes in 2021 were lower than figures from census...
