Annual Impact Report 2024
Options available to officers
In our annual survey we asked EHOs to provide information on what methods they have used to bring homes back into use.
‘In your experience, how commonly used are the following key actions in assisting owners to bring properties back into use? With 0 being not used at all, and 10 being most frequently used’
| Q 22 In your experience, how commonly used are the following key actions in assisting owners to bring properties back into use? With 0 being not used at all, and 10 being most frequently used | On a scale from 1-10, how commonly Empty Homes Officer’s used these options (on average) |
|---|---|
| Providing advice and information to owner. | 8.65 |
| Access to VAT discounts, merchants & services discounts, other discounts | 6.17 |
| Council tax discretion (including providing support to obtain discretion) | 6.00 |
| Linked to Council schemes (Buy back, PSL, Rent Deposit Guarantee Schemes) | 4.18 |
| Providing grant funding | 3.75 |
| Enforcement (eg environmental health, statutory nuisance, building standards regulations) | 2.89 |
| Worked/partnered with RSL, Third Sector or community group | 2.85 |
| Worked/partnered with the private or commercial sector | 2.33 |
| Linking to matchmaker scheme | 2.13 |
| Providing loan funding | 2.00 |