Issue - meetings

Issue - meetings

Central Bedfordshire Empty Homes Strategy

Meeting: 10/10/2017 - EXECUTIVE (Item 53)

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The report will present the refreshed Empty Homes Strategy for approval.

Additional documents:

Decision:

That the refreshed Central Bedfordshire Empty Homes Strategy be approved.

Minutes:

 

The Executive considered a report from the Executive Member for Social Care and Housing that presented the refreshed Empty Homes Strategy 2017 and the associated consultation outcomes.  The 2010 Strategy had been  successful and the 2017 refreshed Strategy sought to build on this by seeking to bring homes above shops and offices back into use.

 

In response to a question, the Executive Member for Social Care and Housing explained that action could only be taken if no one was accessing the property and not paying Council Tax.  65 empty properties were brought back into residential use in 2016/17.

 

Reason for decision:  To continue the momentum and build upon the 2010 Strategy through a refreshed Strategy and Action Plan.

 

RESOLVED

 

that the refreshed Central Bedfordshire Empty Homes Strategy be approved.

 

The decision was unanimous.