Monday, Sep 20, 2010
3,597 empty properties to be brought into use
BBC News Cornwall: Cornwall Council in empty homes strategy
Mark Kaczmarek, the council's cabinet member for housing and planning, said: "There is a huge shortage of housing in Cornwall which is fuelling high house prices and preventing many ordinary local people from affording a decent home." ... It also plans to provide interest free loans of up to £20,000 to "make decent" empty properties by carrying out essential repairs and installing basic amenities.
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1. Crunchy said...
Good idea if the rent is payed directly back to the council and the tenant has a minimum agreed rental period,
otherwise it's a refurb and return to market bung.
2. Dannyboy said...
Mark Kaczmarek:
There is not a huge shortage of houses. As the BBC well know. There are instead, an abundance of houses, all of which are hugely overinflated by fake valuations.
As everyone already knows..........[Sometimes I think the BBC only exist to shamelessly talk up, or put their spin on house price inflation. The beebs wings will be clipped soon enough. And the millions priced out will not forget your years of rhetoric]
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4. Essexman said...
Instead of handing out public cash to the wealthy by giving interest free loans to the owners of empty properties - why not tax them?
Remove the council tax discount and charge a national stamp for empty properties?
Landlords would then be free to choose to upgrade and rent out - or sell at market value.
Why on earth is so much public money supporting owners of run down, empty properties? Using public money to maintain existing property, fuel inefficient property, thereby sucking much needed support out of fragile UK GDP?
5. drewster said...
Interest-free loans for landlords. Hmmm, I wonder how many of the councillors own BTL property in Cornwall?
6. happy mondays said...
How Cynical drewster! Councillors are there for the community not for themselves! Cough....
7. mark wadsworth said...
"It also plans to provide interest free loans of up to £20,000 to "make decent" empty properties"
We own land! Give us money! LVT will sort this out far more cheaply.
8. Crunchy said...
3. mark wadsworth
I wish you would refrain from such base language, it really lowers the tone.
Using abbreviations does not excuse your childishness, it still comes across as intimidating to senior readers.
Please desist or head your posts with a government hate speech health warning.
Now wash your mouth out with soap!
Mrs Peacy.
9. greenmind said...
MW: "will" or "would" ... do you mean LVT is about to be rolled out?
10. sibley's b'stard child said...
Forgive my ignorance, but why would a LL (or anyone else, for that matter) be sat on an empty property?
11. Mh said...
Will this include empty holiday homes which is the real problem in Cornwall.
12. mark said...
Talking of loans from councils I know someone who recently obtained some kind of loan for equity from the council to refurb their house, any ideas on what this is? I have never heard of such a scheme and what benefits the taxpayers will get from it
13. timmy t said...
Dannyboy said...Mark Kaczmarek: There is not a huge shortage of houses.
I'm afraid there is in Cornwall Dannyboy - so many are second/holiday homes that there just aren't enough left for locals. And with the average local salary at about (I'm guessing) £12,000, how the heck is anyone there ever going to buy their own home.
MW is right - LVT is the answer
14. powerofnow said...
I will speak to Mr Kaczmarek when I get a chance forward your helpful suggestions.