Empty houses — 3

Abstract

The first paper in this series identified the plight of empty buildings and explored the legilation that applies. It concluded that existing legal safeguards are inadequate and the few permissive powers of protection that do exist are rarely used by local authorities. The second looked at the costs of leaving buildings empty and a number of initiatives which have been made to bring the buildings back into use. Where successful, these attempts have only been on a small scale and have taken great effort, much of it voluntary, to motivate authorities and lending agencies to allow them to go ahead. Now positive proposals for improvement are made.

Citation

Catt, R. (1987), "Empty houses — 3", Structural Survey, Vol. 5 No. 1, pp. 15-23. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb006246