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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