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Council tax bills to triple for Birmingham homes left empty for five years - Birmingham Live
Affordable housing - what is Harrogate Council's approach? - Harrogate Advertiser
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Council tax bills for owners of Stockport empty homes to treble from April - Manchester Evening News
SPECIAL REPORT: Scandal of Rotherham's 1100 empty homes - Rotherham Advertiser
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West Midlands Fire Srvice asks for the public's help in reporting derelict buildings to the Council - Birmingham Updates
Crackdown on vacant, derelict homes causing 'misery' for neighbours - Andover Advertiser
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- Inside London's derelict 'Billionaires Row' - Insider
- Derelict Offaly property on large site up for auction for suprising price - Offaly Express
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- Why are there so many empty homes in the Outer Hebrides? - The Scotsman
- Empty Properties targeted to ease pressure on the housing market - Hereford Times
Around The Web submitted by DGibbens on
Tough question that: should we charge owners of long-term empties more council tax? Must be a lot of empty/second-home owning councillors in Wales.
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Welsh Government web-page which hosts downloadable detailed guidance on the provisions for Second Homes Premium and Empty Homes Premium.
This provides a good template for how Second Homes Premium might be implemented in Scotland and England.
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Welcome to the 21st century.
The BBC maths is wildly off if, as reported, a 50% discount might be replaced by a 100% premium: that would indicate an increase to up to 4 times current level, not 'double' as suggested by the story.
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This is a PDF of an EHN presentation to an Empty Homes Conference in Ireland, held at Croke Park stadium on 9th March 2017.
It provided a thumbnail sketch of local interventions in England/Wales along with an overview of various strategic approaches to the empty homes issue, contrasting the different approaches taken in Scotland, Wales, Kent and England.
