This toolkit provides an accessible and digestible resource to support the practicalities of dealing with empty homes, and gives officers with a range of tools which can support councils to progress to a proactive service.
Against a backdrop of significant pressure to meet increasing housing demand, councils are increasingly exploring other opportunities to meet shortfalls in supply. Bringing empty homes back into use can play a key part of local strategies to meet housing need.
The LGA has developed a resource for empty homes officers to use to help them in their day-to-day job. The guide has been developed from our report with The Empty Homes Network.
The toolkit includes include:
- a descriptive guide to the different stages of empty homes activity
- empty homes premiums
- the implementation of an empty homes database
- data cleansing flow chart
- case prioritisation using the database
- case progression flow chart
- a bank of information sources for use in investigation procedures
- draft letters.
- Published by:
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LGA
- Reference code:
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5.192