Posts by Stuart Butler
Awards Up for Grabs at 13th Scottish Empty Homes Conference
The winners of the Auction House Scotland Empty Homes Awards will be announced when the 13th Scottish Empty Homes Conference comes to Glasgow in February. Awards in five different categories will be up for grabs. The awards are: Best Use of Empty Homes to Meet Social/Affordable Housing Need Special Recognition Award Best Housing Renovation –…
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13th Scottish Empty Homes Conference Comes to Glasgow
The 13th annual Scottish Empty Homes Conference will take place in Glasgow on Thursday 29 February. The in-person only event will be held in The Studio on Hope Street near the city centre. Boasting a packed agenda, this year’s Scottish Empty Homes Conference brings together housing experts and professionals from across Scotland to discuss successes…
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Strategic Framework launched to help to tackle Scotland’s empty homes
The Scottish Empty Homes Partnership (SEHP) has today published new guidance setting out how some of Scotland’s 42,000+ long term empty homes can be used to help to tackle Scotland’s housing emergency. The Strategic Empty Homes Framework guidance and template were developed in partnership with Arneil Johnston, Scotland’s foremost specialist housing consultants, and set out…
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New figures show 9000 Scottish empty homes brought back into use
A report published today by the Scottish Empty Homes Partnership (SEHP) shows that more than 9,000 long term empty homes have been brought back into use in Scotland since the partnership was established in 2010. In its latest impact report, the SEHP reported that Empty Homes Officers supported owners to bring 1,257 long-term empty homes…
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Empty homes work in Scotland was starting from a low base when the partnership began in 2010. 13 years later the picture is very different, as other parts of the UK and the rest of the world, now look to Scotland as an example. This is something that would not have been possible without the…
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