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This petition is now closed, as its deadline has passed.

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to help landlords to reduce the number of empty homes in the UK, which is rising sharply at a time when demand for social housing is growing ever more acute. More details

Submitted by Tom Lloyd of Inside Housing – Deadline to sign up by: 21 April 2009 – Signatures: 345

Petition update, 12 June 2009

You signed a petition asking the Prime Minister to "help landlords to reduce the number of empty homes in the UK, which is rising sharply at a time when demand for social housing is growing ever more acute."

The Prime Minister's Office has responded to that petition and you can view it here:

http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page19606


Prime Minister's Office

More details from petition creator

We suggest three measures that would help to reduce empty homes:

VAT - a cut in VAT on repairs and maintenance to 5 per cent, to make it more attractive for owners to invest in an empty home, or for a potential buyer to make an offer

Grant – use cash from existing Homes and Communities Agency budget for social landlords to buy and repair long-term empty properties

Guidance – clearer advice from the government to help councils use Empty Dwelling Management Orders

Current signatories

Tom Lloyd, the Petition Creator, joined by:

  • Abdullah Rhodes-Taylor
  • Richard Parr
  • Simon Brandon
  • David Ireland
  • Alan Collett
  • Karen Lawrinson
  • Nick Caprara
  • Caroline Paranandi
  • Stewart Tudgay
  • Philippa Ward
  • Stuart Macdonald
  • Nick Aldridge
  • Andrew wastling
  • Henry Oliver
  • Sandra Martin
  • Mike Bright (helpfromhome.org)
  • Loyce Nzekwe
  • Stuart Burrell
  • Stuart Burrell
  • Gene Robertson
  • sandra millett
  • David Pickering
  • Sylvia Wilson
  • Enid Thompson
  • Mike Alexander
  • ELAINE JACKSON
  • Corbett Bunting
  • Kenechukwu Ibezi
  • Lynda Snow
  • Hilary Simmons
  • Jean McSweenie
  • Zainul Pirmohamed
  • Will Mapplebeck
  • Jeremy Frankson
  • Dominic Evans
  • John H Earnshaw
  • Shelley Waldock
  • brian goss
  • Cllr Paul Bayliss
  • Graham Kauders
  • Mr Partis (petitions.pm.gov.uk/reviewspeedlimit/)
  • Black Country Housing Group
  • David Cusack
  • Family and Parenting Institute
  • Jason Kay
  • Brendan Mason
  • Andrew Ochia
  • stephen hyde
  • Jan Comer
  • Jon Fitzmaurice
  • Ben Owen
  • Ceri Edwards
  • Peter Blake
  • Phillip A Hanson
  • Keith Gunner
  • Hannah Gibbs
  • Andrew Dorton
  • Alan Collett
  • Matthew Hunter
  • Kate Bavester
  • claudia robinson
  • Stuart Baldwin
  • Bruce McKellar
  • Chris Butterworth
  • Shashi Ioannides
  • Mihir Benodekar
  • Rebecca Stewart
  • Christine Waring
  • Tony Koutsoumbos
  • Phillip Tapper
  • Sarah Pearson
  • Matt Ogier-Russell
  • Andrea Kevric
  • JAMIE EWEN MCNEILL
  • Emilia Melville
  • Alastair Murray
  • Tony Hill
  • Patrick Osborne
  • Alasdair Mussell Webber
  • Samuel Bishop
  • Grace Dawson
  • Greg Sutton
  • Margot Melville
  • Anna Mavrakakis
  • Andrew Lavender
  • wendy williams
  • Kieran Channon
  • Andrew Wright
  • Kirstine Stewart
  • Susanne Springer
  • zoe barrow
  • Mark Leith
  • Gethyn ap John
  • Rachel Thomas
  • Chris Black
  • david moody
  • Richard Edwards (petitions.number10.gov.uk/fatadoption)
  • Rachel Armstead
  • Pete Rowland
  • ADAM KEANE
  • Sarah Payling
  • Hardeep Padam
  • Regan Morris
  • Katherine Mc Hugh
  • Michelle Lewis
  • ema goudge
  • Olive Harrison
  • Dawn Powell
  • C Medforth
  • TAINA LEHTINEN
  • Therese Roberts
  • Jodie Foulks
  • Clara Story
  • Paula Bryant
  • Dipa Mistry
  • David Flint
  • Jenny Church
  • Anh Nguyen
  • Jacqueline Crampton
  • Leonie Brown
  • Becky Barnicoat
  • Sam Stainton
  • Andy Kilian
  • Alice Ross
  • Laura shemeld
  • Joel Hurst
  • Matt Humphreys
  • Paul Froes
  • Oliver Hoare
  • Morag Smith
  • Cecily Gabriel-Pullen
  • duncan hayes
  • Brendan Mason
  • Chris Brown
  • Cathy Sellars
  • Louisa Strachan
  • Alan Clarke
  • Julia Swindells
  • Zoe Wooster
  • Hannah Johnson
  • Catherine Bailey
  • Carolyn Leggett
  • Elizabeth Ellis
  • Hayley Morgan
  • Marcia Lewis
  • Michael Todd-Jones
  • Katherine Greenwell
  • Nigel Parrington
  • Lara Oyedele
  • Jonjo Hegarty
  • Lorna Young
  • Anne Grzybowski
  • Christine Cunningham
  • Katherine McHale
  • Gillian Kent
  • Ben Bradnack
  • Steve Vickery
  • Juanita Ellis
  • Mrs. Natalia Bechka
  • Timothy Scriven
  • Sylvia Hebden
  • Michael Sullivan
  • Christopher Phillips
  • Caroline Toogood
  • Peter Quinn
  • Clare Woodward
  • Daniel Zeichner
  • Dorothy Forster
  • Anne Gore
  • Ashley Djemal
  • Chan Kataria
  • Lisa Gudge
  • David Gibbens
  • Phillip Hanson
  • Jenny Jacobs
  • Fraser Kelly
  • Anne Hinchey
  • Cliff Woodward
  • terri.currums
  • Andrew Ross MacDonald
  • Berni Armstrong
  • John Townend
  • Julie Ralph
  • Karen Hurley
  • Claire Neal
  • anita sully
  • Paul Augarde
  • Susan Wise
  • Niall McVeigh
  • Joan Ryan
  • Cllr Mark Flewitt
  • Carly Robinson
  • Peter Bennett
  • Maggie Ramadan
  • Amanda Pullen
  • Steve Palmer
  • Theresa Kelly
  • Barry Calder
  • fiona logan
  • Spencer Chapman
  • Reginald Camel
  • Malcolm Levi
  • Zoe Milburn Smith
  • Gabby Mallett
  • Kathy O'Regan
  • Michael Walsh
  • Sharon Gronland
  • Laurence Goff
  • Kate Davies
  • Anna Williams
  • Marion Thorpe
  • Chris Bennett
  • Fiona Roberts
  • Michael Thorpe
  • Carol Roberts
  • Pauline Gaye
  • Sarah Nemecek
  • A Roberts
  • SAMUEL FISHER
  • Lisa Taylor
  • Chris Swinn
  • Sheila Berry
  • Neville Hawkins
  • Mark Rodgers
  • Cllr Brian Rollo
  • Javed Iqbal
  • Andrew Kew
  • Sally James
  • Joanna Walton
  • John Gray (UNISON)
  • Gary Davis
  • Rebecca Maxted
  • Andrew Kew
  • Paul Tennant
  • Caroline Felton
  • Natasha Bond
  • Mark Grove
  • Charlotte Macey
  • Kayleigh Burton
  • Gemma Turner
  • Julia Donnelly
  • Maxine Selby
  • Rhodri Davies
  • Michelle Moloney
  • Hannah Welfoot
  • Josie Williams
  • Marie Jezequel
  • John Macey
  • Gareth Thomas
  • Jenny Cook
  • ian chatfield
  • Mrs Natasha Jenkins
  • Lisa Soley
  • Ron Cook
  • ROSEMARY TURNER
  • Brian Menzies
  • Julie Ayre
  • margaret mcmillan
  • Vanessa Clarke
  • Debbie Turrell
  • chris smetherham-james
  • Louise Warren
  • David J Halfacre
  • Neil Jackson
  • Cllr Iain Donaldson
  • John Cameron
  • gemma fox
  • Cllr Bill Shannom
  • Marilyn DiCara
  • Alan L Hackett
  • Cllr Penny Shelton
  • Tui Maybury
  • Peter Pringle
  • Marcus Fisher
  • Laura Ryan
  • Nadia Belfatmi
  • James Russell
  • Kate Goulds
  • Brian Powell
  • Kirstie May-Jones
  • Anu Vedi
  • ALEX DUTTON
  • Androulla Kyriacou
  • Tim Hamilton-Miller
  • Christopher F Green
  • Nikola Boskovic
  • Samantha Male
  • Rebecca Constable
  • Charles Bazlinton
  • Christopher Pattinson
  • Gay Cheeseman
  • Wray Norton
  • Caroline Rahilly
  • lynda turner
  • Darren Sussex
  • David Oglaza
  • Jane Slator
  • Rosemary Knowles
  • Alec Chalmers
  • Pauline Richardson
  • Raj Paranandi
  • Stephen Patterson
  • Alex Haylett
  • Victoria Misselbrook
  • Manjula Paranandi
  • Charlotte Clarey
  • Jon Berry
  • Polly Roberts
  • Harriet Dennys
  • Daisy Gardener
  • Richard Thorpe
  • Lara Massey
  • Catherine Timson
  • Lesley Ann McColl
  • Louisa Van den Bergh
  • Michelle Menzie (Alamo Housing Co-op)
  • Lynn Sandelance
  • Guy Wakeley
  • Claire Kyriakides-Yeldham
  • Paul Hazelwood
  • Margaret King
  • Alan Broadbent
  • John Howes
  • Ingrid Frederick
  • T. L. Hamand
  • Rob Hayles
  • amanda groves
  • Muriel peters
  • Eniko Witt
  • Demetrios Antoniou
  • Antoniou Demetrios
  • Nick Kephalas
  • Anna Georgiou
  • mario theodosiou
  • Alekos Kleanthous
  • Harry Antoniou
  • Andy Kyriacou
  • Victoria Harnaman
  • Geoffrey May
  • chris rotis
  • Pavlos Marneros
  • Savvas Pavlou
  • Dimi Andonevris
  • Charlotte Tullett

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