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- Council pulls plug on Carillion involvement in Leeds restoration project
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- Housing target for Leeds could be slashed again … to 42,000? (from 70,000)
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Tag Archives: empty homes
Bad news, good news, data and the Leeds housing crisis
I’m a big fan of the Yorkshire Evening Post, but I’m struggling with its front page “exclusive” news story this morning. Yes, yes, there’s a housing crisis in Leeds. And yes, “it’s time to end it”. And yes, as the paper … Continue reading
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Tagged empty homes, housing, leeds, leeds city council, leeds data mill, open data, yorkshire evening post
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Empty Homes Week 2012 – the story of the Garnets, Leeds 11
Below is a video of Leeds City Council contractors demolishing the last of 76 terraced houses being cleared in the Garnets area of Beeston, in the south of the city. The houses weren’t worth doing up. Apparently. And pulling them … Continue reading
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Tagged beeston, demolition, empty homes, garnets, leeds city council, Leeds Federated Housing Association
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Council committee being briefed this evening on progress of demolition work in Beeston
This morning and this afternoon a conference is being held in Beeston, Leeds, to see what can be done to bring empty homes back into use in the city. It’s an action day that is the direct result of campaigning by … Continue reading
Long-term empty homes slashed by a third in Leeds in 2010-11
Leeds City Council has announced that the number of long-term empty homes in the city was slashed by a third in 2010-11. I say “announced”, but the figures have been released buried in a State of the City Report that’s … Continue reading
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Tagged empty homes, leeds city council, peter gruen, state of the city report
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HOW much per house? Council launches new Beeston development
The first sod’s being cut on Friday of a new Council housing development in Beeston – 55 new houses, the Council says, for social rent and shared ownership that are going to be built on a brownfield site by Bramall … Continue reading
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