Empty Homes : All documents

North West joins forces to create empty homes strategies

13 March 2012  Article

Empty homes represent a hugely important but challenging area of the current housing agenda, both nationally and locally. In the North West alone there are over 60,000...

Knowsley's Empty Homes Strategy

19 December 2011  Case Study

Knowsley’s Sustainable Community Strategy sets out the vision that by 2023 the borough will provide attractive, sustainable neighbourhoods with a wide choice of housing...

Empty historic homes brought back to life in Derby

16 December 2011  News

A trio of historic vacant homes in Derby have been transformed into high quality family homes. The properties in the Arboretum Square conservation area had been targeted by...

Bow Arts Trust Poplar HARCA

16 November 2011  Case Study

BOW ARTS TRUST’S LIVE/WORK SCHEME is a collaboration with registered social landlord Poplar HARCA (Housing and Regeneration Community  Association) and is a unique...

Bristol Empty Homes

12 September 2011  Case Study

Bristol has carried out a level of ad hoc work with empty properties for many years – in the past largely limited to responding to nuisance caused by derelict properties...

Derby City Council’s Empty Homes Service

2 September 2011  Case Study

Derby City Council published its first empty property strategy in 2003. Since that time, a wealth of experience has been gathered, and many hundreds of properties returned to...

Grahame Park Estate – Collindale

1 September 2011  Case Study

In 2010 Camelot were appointed by Genesis Housing Association to secure part of a large scale rolling decant programme that will eventually take place over 15 years for the...

Rochdale empty homes initiative

23 August 2011  Case Study

The Langley estate in Rochdale was a large Manchester City Council overspill estate, which suffered from a poor reputation, causing it to be unpopular. As a result, it become...