Empty property
This page highlights some of the current parliamentary material available on empty property. This includes select committee reports, briefing papers on current legislation and other subjects produced by the parliamentary research services, and the latest Early Day Motions put down by MPs.
Standard Notes
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 04.06.2013 | Empty housing |
| Empty housing. By Wendy Wilson. SN/SP/3012. This note outlines local authorities' powers to tackle empty housing; discusses Government action around this issue and sets out the further measures that campaigning organisations are requesting. | |
| 04.06.2013 | Housing Market Renewal Pathfinders |
| This note provides information on the Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder programme which was initiated under the Labour Government. | |
| 11.01.2013 | Constituency casework: housing (England) |
| A guide to sources for answering common constituents' housing problems. | |
| 29.10.2012 | Empty Dwelling Management Orders (EDMOs) |
| This note explains local authorities' powers to tackle privately owned dwellings that have been empty for a period of time. | |
| 24.04.2012 | Business rates: empty property |
| This note outlines the background to changes in empty rating policy. |
Research Papers
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 30.05.2007 | The Rating (Empty Properties) Bill |
| The Rating (Empty Properties) Bill. (Bill 102 of 2006-07) House of Commons Library Research Paper 07/49 | |
| 18.08.2006 | Affordable housing in England |
Early Day Motions
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 06.04.2010 | SOUTH LAKELAND DISTRICT HOUSING WAITING LIST |
| That this House notes that South Lakeland District Council's figures show that there are 1,000 empty properties in the district; further notes that Shelter's figures show that there ... | |
| 10.03.2010 | EMPTY PROPERTY RATES |
| That this House welcomes the increase in empty property rates threshold from £15,000 to £18,000, but considers it to be a short-term solution to a long-standing problem; and calls for ... | |
| 13.01.2010 | EMPTY HOMES |
| That this House is concerned by the rising number of empty homes in England; notes that of the 784,000 homes which currently vacant 327,000 have been empty for a period of more than ... | |
| 02.11.2009 | EMPTY HOMES |
| That this House is concerned by the rising number of empty homes in England; notes that of the 784,000 homes which are currently vacant, 327,000 have been empty for a period of more ... | |
| 21.01.2009 | EMPTY BUSINESS PROPERTY RATES |
| That this House notes the Government's empty property rate relief is causing some perfectly good properties to be destroyed or let at a peppercorn rent to reduce the rate burden for ... |
