The Empty Homes Network has produced Guidelines for monitoring  empty homes interventions by local authorities to replace the  Code of Guidance on the application of Best Value Performance Indicator 64.

We encourage all local authorities to adopt these and we are lobbying for the information recorded to be included in the annual Housing Strategy Statistical Appendix return. 

The latest version of the Guidelines themselves, entitled Guidelines for Monitoring Empty Homes Interventions: A standard approach for local authorities, can be downloaded from our library by following this link.

Latest news about the Guidelines can be found by following this link.

Note that there are two versions of a template monitoring spreadsheet that accompanies the Guidelines.

The more sophisticated version for full members and subscribers includes a data sheet which, if filled in correctly, automatically populates the summary sheet.

The less sophisticated version, lacking the data sheet from which the summary can be automatically populated, is available to everyone..