The Communities Minister, Andrew Stunnell, has today announced new plans to encourage councils to get empty properties lived in again. The Government will match the council tax raised for every empty property brought back into use, and the council can then spend this money as they wish. Mr. Stunnell urged local communities and councils to work together to identify the locations of the approximately 300,000 homes that are currently empty in England.
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This is the question the HCA are asking in their current online debate. Tackling empty homes is one of the Coalition Government’s policy priorities and Housing Minister, the Rt Hon Grant Shapps, has now added his contribution to the debate, calling for ideas about how to get more empty homes back into use.
You can find out more about the Housing Minister’s views on empty homes, by watching the film on their website.
Due to high interest in the debate, the closing date for taking part has been extended until 31st August 2010.
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