
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to require every Local Authority to create a register of empty homes in their area, and following that to enact measures to bring some of them into occupancy thus saving some greenfield building. The Local Development Framework investigations currently being undergone, ignore the potential supply of empty homes of which there are estimated to be 870,000 in the UK (Empty Homes Agency). This is more than 4 year’s supply, according to Kate Barker’s Housing Review.
Submitted by Charles Bazlinton – Deadline to sign up by: 27 January 2009 – Signatures: 333
Charles Bazlinton, the Petition Creator, joined by: