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@panda12 wrote:
@jen_jen wrote:
As for tackling it, all the charity is doing is raising awareness…
You obviously didn’t look at the website properly. Although the majority of the empty homes are privately owned, some are owned by the local council or social housing.
The gov could easily put legislation in place to ensure that any home does not remain empty / derelict for no very good reason.
Oh I did look at the website properly, in some depth, that’s how I know how many houses are empty in my area and how many have been empty for 6 months or more. We also have a relatively low % of empty homes, maybe because we’re on a main train line into London and attract a lot of commuters that don’t want to or can’t pay London prices for accomodation.
You said there was a charity in place to tackle this. Maybe our views of tackling it are different; the charity is raising awareness and giving guidance which is of course needed, but they are not “tackling it” as in taking the properties and making them habitable, which was the point being made.
As for being the forum police, far from it, but just for once I was finding it refreshing to have an intelligent and serious discussion within JC…it doesn’t happen often :wink:
@jen_jen wrote:
@panda12 wrote:
@jen_jen wrote:
As for tackling it, all the charity is doing is raising awareness…
You obviously didn’t look at the website properly. Although the majority of the empty homes are privately owned, some are owned by the local council or social housing.
The gov could easily put legislation in place to ensure that any home does not remain empty / derelict for no very good reason.
Oh I did look at the website properly, in some depth, that’s how I know how many houses are empty in my area and how many have been empty for 6 months or more. We also have a relatively low % of empty homes, maybe because we’re on a main train line into London and attract a lot of commuters that don’t want to or can’t pay London prices for accomodation.
You said there was a charity in place to tackle this. Maybe our views of tackling it are different; the charity is raising awareness and giving guidance which is of course needed, but they are not “tackling it” as in taking the properties and making them habitable, which was the point being made.
As for being the forum police, far from it, but just for once I was finding it refreshing to have an intelligent and serious discussion within JC…it doesn’t happen often :wink:
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