Scottish Empty Homes Partnership

Aberdeen City Council has received an Outstanding Service award at the 10th annual Scottish Empty Homes Conference.

Aberdeen City Council, an Inverness-based building company, a community housing project in Dumfries & Galloway and a Fife Council officer were the winners in the 10th Scottish Empty Homes awards sponsored by Fraser & Fraser Genealogists and International Probate Researchers.

Crumbling bricks, broken windows and overgrown gardens of empty homes across Scotland could be a visual legacy of the economic crisis caused by the COVID pandemic if action is not taken to bring more properties back in to use, according to the leader of a project working with local authorities acros

The Scottish Empty Homes Partnership has announced the finalists for its 10th Annual Conference Awards Ceremony. The winners will be announced on the 2nd of February, on the second day of the three-day digital conference.

The Scottish Empty Homes Partnership has announced a dynamic line-up of speakers for its first ever digital conference, which will be held 1-3 February 2021.

Nominate your colleagues and project partners now for the 10th Scottish Empty Homes Awards before nominations close on the 12th of January. Over the past 10 years, the awards have showcased the inspiring work of individuals and organisations who have made exemplary contributions to the field of priv

The Scottish Empty Homes Partnership has announced that the 10th Scottish Empty Homes Conference will be held on an online digital platform from 1 – 3 February 2021 with tickets from as little as £15. With the theme 'Providing Homes, Helping Recovery', this year’s conference will r

A total of 1,057 affordable housing supply homes completed in the latest quarter, July to September 2020, an increase of 860 homes on the 197 completions in the previous quarter, April to June 2020. According to the latest statistics released by Scotland's chief statistician, there were about half t

The Scottish Empty Homes Partnership (SEHP) has called on local authorities to use Scotland’s 40,000 long-term empty homes as part of COVID-19 recovery plans, ahead of an expected increase in numbers of properties empty for six months or more. SEHP is expecting official statistics publish

Nominations are now open for the 10th Scottish Empty Homes Awards. Over the past ten years, the awards have showcased the inspiring work of individuals and organisations who have made exemplary contributions to the field of private sector empty homes work in Scotland.

The Scottish Empty Homes Partnership (SEHP), set up to help councils bring empty properties back into use, has urged Dundee City Council to consider the city’s 1,209 long term empty homes as part of its strategy to address the local housing crisis. The council recently announced a £6 mil

The Scottish Empty Homes Partnership has announced that the 10th Scottish Empty Homes Conference will be held on an online digital platform from 1 – 4 February 2021. With the theme Providing Homes, Helping Recovery, this year’s conference will reflect on the work of the past decade and l

Galashiels Town Centre, Hawick Town Centre, Hawick Trinity and Hawick Wellogate had more than 5% of properties classified as Long-Term Empty (LTE) in each of the past four years (2016-2019), according to new data from the Scottish Empty Homes Partnership (SEHP).

Scottish councils have been urged to make empty homes work a cornerstone of post-pandemic recovery after a record number of privately-owned vacant properties were brought back into use last year. In its 10th annual report, the Scottish Empty Homes Partnership (SEHP) announced that 1,412 previou

The number of empty homes in Aberdeen has almost tripled in the last four years.