Annual Impact Report 2024

Best Practice and Knowledge sharing events

Workshop on Empty Homes Financing Options

As the Network expressed an interest in empty homes financing, the partnership hosted an Empty Homes Finance Workshop. This featured examples from local authorities, including the Perth & Kinross Loan Scheme and Dumfries & Galloway Grant Scheme. Presentations from external companies empty homes financing offers also showcased other models. Lendology presented their Local Authority Partner Financing scheme and Ecology detailed their retrofit mortgage product.

Workshop on the LoCTA Hub Tracing Tool

Using industry research and empty homes officer feedback, the partnership identified the LoCTA Hub, an effective tracing tool that would aid the network in their daily work. This digital platform enables local authority officers to trace empty homes owners and also to access information from other local authorities in one convenient portal, giving easy access to various key tracing functions on one platform. The event received positive interest and feedback from our network and has proven to be impactful by now being integrated into many officers’ case management.