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MargaretR said:
That surprises me because only a few weeks ago Hynburn Homes were congratulating themselves on the turnaround/empty rate here-
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That's what I thought until this story appeared, and the fact emerged that Hyndburn is one of the boroughs with the highest unoccupied property figures in the country.

Specialist officer appointed to tackle Hyndburn's 2,000 empty homes (From Blackburn Citizen)

There's so much spin going on it's wonder there's anyone left standing at H.B.C.
 
MargaretR said:
My recent experience as detailed in this thread
http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f69/hyndburn-homes-refurbishment-44973.html

leads me to think that their delight at being audited as 'fair' by the Audit commission

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is an excercise in boosting staff morale. Especially as there are only 4 grades of performance and 'fair' is 3rd :rolleyes:
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Does not sound or look very good margaret, have you spoken to any of our local councillors about your problems.
 
park381 said:
Does not sound or look very good margaret, have you spoken to any of our local councillors about your problems.
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Now that my home is not a council house, I think that approach would be futile.
The situation was worse when it was - at least now I have hope of improvements
 
garinda said:
That's what I thought until this story appeared, and the fact emerged that Hyndburn is one of the boroughs with the highest unoccupied property figures in the country.

Specialist officer appointed to tackle Hyndburn's 2,000 empty homes (From Blackburn Citizen)

There's so much spin going on it's wonder there's anyone left standing at H.B.C.
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It's a great headline it was in the LET as well, what's this guy going to do, tackle the repairs himself or log where the empty property is. If that's his job then I would have thought that HBC already knew where the empty properties were. It is "A look what we are doing" type headline.
 
MargaretR said:
Now that my home is not a council house, I think that approach would be futile.
The situation was worse when it was - at least now I have hope of improvements
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It would be futile Margaret, HH may not be council owned but they still have a vested interest, and your councillor ill take up your case for you if asked
 
See Asda have begun the filling station, after amendments to Planning Applications, plus 'improvements to car park', which I presume will include the bus station. So be aware .. a little disruptive at the moment.
 
garinda said:
That's what I thought until this story appeared, and the fact emerged that Hyndburn is one of the boroughs with the highest unoccupied property figures in the country.

Specialist officer appointed to tackle Hyndburn's 2,000 empty homes (From Blackburn Citizen)

There's so much spin going on it's wonder there's anyone left standing at H.B.C.
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He is going to create an empty properties database. Surely they shouldn't be admitting to that given that empty properties are still liable for council tax. Does this mean the council tax database is flawed?
 
katex said:
See Asda have begun the filling station, after amendments to Planning Applications, plus 'improvements to car park', which I presume will include the bus station. So be aware .. a little disruptive at the moment.
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Thanks for that info kate, was due to do the weekly shop at asda today. :eek:
 
lancsdave said:
He is going to create an empty properties database. Surely they shouldn't be admitting to that given that empty properties are still liable for council tax. Does this mean the council tax database is flawed?
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My thoughts as well lancsdave, just what is this guy going to do, and how much will he being paid. :confused:
 
park381 said:
My thoughts as well lancsdave, just what is this guy going to do, and how much will he being paid. :confused:
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To be quite honest Park being able to find the owners of Empty properties is not as straight forward as you may think, most empty properties are in the private sector and find out who owns them can at times be an absolute nightmare
 
Think you can tell the Council ones though Jaysay, they put some sort of silver lining and mesh (?) at the windows.

Private ones must be a nightmare though.
 
jaysay said:
To be quite honest Park being able to find the owners of Empty properties is not as straight forward as you may think, most empty properties are in the private sector and find out who owns them can at times be an absolute nightmare
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So is that this specialist's brief, to find the owners don't think you need a building specialist for that.
 
katex said:
Think you can tell the Council ones though Jaysay, they put some sort of silver lining and mesh (?) at the windows.
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That to stop the windows being broken, or stop yobs breaking in and using the empty house for growing that there weed, the stuff police are always sniffing out :D
 
BERNADETTE said:
Are owners not registered with the Land Register?
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Believe me Bernie it ain't quite that simple, I tried to find he owners of a property on Roe Greave Road and it was a nightmare, you can find some through the land registry, but not all
 
jaysay said:
Believe me Bernie it ain't quite that simple, I tried to find he owners of a property on Roe Greave Road and it was a nightmare, you can find some through the land registry, but not all
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Thanks Jaysay just thought the owner of the house was always registered
 
jaysay said:
Believe me Bernie it ain't quite that simple, I tried to find he owners of a property on Roe Greave Road and it was a nightmare, you can find some through the land registry, but not all
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I find that hard to believe in this day and age, but since you have tried it must be correct. If the house is empty why not get HBC to put a compulsory purchase order on the property, bet the owner would soon come out of the woodwork then :D
 
park381 said:
I find that hard to believe in this day and age, but since you have tried it must be correct. If the house is empty why not get HBC to put a compulsory purchase order on the property, bet the owner would soon come out of the woodwork then :D
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I don't think that's so easy too Park, would be ideal granted, but before you can put a CP order on a property you've got to know who owns the flaming property. Mind you its few years since I was involved (about 8 to be precise) so things could have changed, but I now property was a complete nightmare back then:eek:
 
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