Posts by Stuart Butler
SEHP conference
The theme of this year’s conference, held at The Engine Shed in Stirling was sustainability with the title ‘Repair, Reuse, Revitalise’. Speakers included Shona Robison MSP, cabinet secretary for housing, John Kerr, housing development & homelessness manager at West Dunbartonshire Council, and Chris Morgan director, John Gilbert Architects. The conference also saw the launch of…
[…]Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) Best Practice and Knowledge Sharing Network Event
We continually seek to share any solutions and means to bring homes back into use and Compulsory Purchase Orders is another potential tool. This is identified as a strategic priority as our survey data shows that this power is being used infrequently among Scottish Local Authorities. Glasgow City Council is active and effective in using…
[…]Meeting our strategic objectives 4 – Supporting the Network of Empty Homes Officers
The Scottish Empty Homes Partnership acts to support and maintain a network of EHOs throughout Local Authorities across Scotland. By facilitating best practice groups, resources and training we enable peer support and networking. Training sessions were undertaken with 19 empty homes practitioners, from 9 local authorities, in the last financial year. This helped the new…
[…]Homes for Good partnership outcomes
In the video below, Barry Sweeney, Empty Homes Manager, Homes for Good, shows a property that will be transformed into affordable housing for a household in Glasgow through the partnership.
[…]Meeting our strategic objectives 3 – Encourage registered social landlords, community groups and other private bodies to engage in empty homes work
A key objective for SEHP is to encourage registered social landlords, community groups, third sector organisations and other private bodies to engage in empty homes work. This objective recognised that many of these bodies are housing providers and are struggling to acquire suitable housing to meet the demand that they get for housing every day.…
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