£70m released to renovate empty homes – list

Aaron Morby 13 years ago
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Ninety five housing associations and local authorities have been handed cash to renovate thousands of empty homes up and down the country.

The Homes and Communities Agency allocated the funding which will bring back into use 5,600 new affordable homes.

This is the first time that the HCA has administered an Empty Homes Programme, which will fund the refurbishment of properties which have been empty for at least six months.

The grant chips away at the potential for renovating existing dilapidated housing with an estimated 700,000 homes standing empty at any one time.

Chief executive of the HCA, Pat Ritchie, said: “One of the HCA’s key aims is to maintain a supply of affordable homes. With thousands of homes and properties lying empty across England, we have a leading role to play in tackling the issue of empty homes blighting our communities, and this funding is welcomed.

The high level of interest we received by providers bidding to participate in this programme demonstrates just how important an issue it is.

Empty Homes 2012-15 programme £m Homes
ACCORD HA £0.23 15
Action Housing and Support £0.37 50
Adur District Council £0.10 10
Aldwyck Housing Group £0.18 12
Ashfield District Council £3.49 345
Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council £0.16 32
Bassetlaw District Council £0.07 10
Birmingham City Council £3.22 190
Boston Mayflower Ltd £0.19 24
Bridgwater YMCA Foyer £0.16 8
Brighton & Hove City Council £0.68 45
Central Bedfordshire Council £0.20 24
Cherwell District Council £0.86 53
Chester and District Housing Trust £0.39 41
Christian Alliance Housing Association £1.54 154
City of Bradford MDC £0.90 120
City of Derby £0.08 11
City YMCA £0.16 16
Connect Housing £0.60 48
Cross Keys Homes Limited £1.03 120
Derwentside Homes Limited £0.12 8
Devon and Cornwall Housing £0.26 15
Doncaster MBC £0.69 87
e2 £0.37 44
East Midlands Housing Association £0.21 30
East Riding of Yorkshire Council £0.22 26
Empowering People Inspiring Communities £0.25 25
Exeter City Council £0.23 15
Flexible Home Improvement Loans Ltd £2.36 131
French Weir Affordable Homes £0.05 4
Gateshead Council £0.25 30
Gedling Homes £0.15 15
Gentoo Group £0.05 5
Greater Manchester Combined Authority £5.09 461
Greensquare Group Ltd £0.07 6
Havebury Housing Partnership £0.55 38
Helena Partnerships £0.07 12
Hightown Praetorian and Churches HA £1.01 46
Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council £0.52 40
Housing Action Ltd £1.12 60
Hull City Council £1.30 120
Islington Council £1.35 87
Isos Housing Limited £0.56 35
Jephson Homes Housing Association £0.37 77
Kent County Council £0.80 45
Key Communiities £0.16 16
Knightstone Housing Association £0.40 25
Knowsley Housing Trust £0.04 2
LB Barking and Dagenham £3.39 262
LB Croydon for South West London Housing Partnership £2.74 204
Leicester City Council £0.18 15
Lewes District Council £0.23 15
Lincolnshire Rural Housing Association £0.07 6
Liverpool Mutual Homes £0.11 10
livin Housing Limited £0.54 30
Local Space £2.19 129
London Borough of Brent £0.63 36
London Borough of Bromley Council £0.45 27
London Borough of Hillingdon £2.70 209
Longhurst Group (Blue Skies Consortium) £0.50 40
Maidstone Borough Council £0.16 10
New Forest District Council £0.08 15
North Kesteven District Council £0.12 15
North Lincolnshire Homes £0.18 15
Northampton Borough Council £1.90 105
Notting Hill Housing Trust £0.48 100
Nottingham City Council £0.51 30
Nottingham Community Housing Association Ltd £0.72 85
Odu-Dua Housing Association £0.81 18
Plus Dane Housing Group £0.70 54
Radian (The Swaythling Housing Society Ltd trading as) £0.08 5
Rossendale Borough Council £4.84 474
SE London Housing Partnership c/o LB Southwark £1.43 91
Sheffield City Council £0.57 90
Shian Houisng Association Ltd £1.25 56
Slough YMCA £0.06 8
South Tyneside Council £0.21 27
Southend on Sea Borough Council £0.40 20
SPECTRUM HOUSING GROUP £0.45 15
Spirit Partnership  Tees Valley Consortium Empty homes Bid £2.92 205
St Mungo Community Housing Association Ltd £0.24 8
Sussex Central YMCA £0.86 96
Symphony Housing Group £0.07 8
Thanet District Council £0.54 30
The Places for People Group Limited £0.30 12
The Riverside Group £0.18 7
Together Housing Group £0.18 20
Tuntum Housing Association £0.20 10
Waterloo Housing Group £0.79 71
WDH £0.08 8
Windrush Alliance UK CIC £0.18 30
Wirral Partnership Homes £0.05 6
WM Housing Group £1.28 88
YMCA London South West £0.05 4
Yorkshire Housing Limited £0.05 3

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