Yeasssss!!! Is there a way for us to support this?
Absolutely crazy if they allow this.
Doesn’t matter who owns these properties, councils shouldn’t be able to just seize them.
Outrageous precedent to make for the state to seize someone’s property if they judge them unworthy of having it
You really want to let faceless council officers make judgements on if you get to keep your property or not?
Do what we say or we’ll send the bailiffs round? Council Tax is already enough of an outrage as essentially a tax on being alive.
What govt should do is scale housing, make it much cheaper to buy and create market conditions where house prices go down with usage not up.
Prime real estate with the threat of being seized to house homeless families? You better believe the owners will reemerge and those houses will conveniently become occupied.
If they actually do that I’ll change my name by deed poll to Westminster Council. Westminster is the name, Council the surname.
six months feels like a horrifically short timeframe for this. it’s less than the completely normal amount of time it takes to clear out and sell a deceased relative’s house
This is just a red herring. London’s unoccupancy rates are below average compared to the rest of the UK, and the UK as a whole has very low unoccupancy rates.
The problem isn’t the relatively small number of empty properties, it’s the complete and utter lack of housebuilding.
The easiest way to solve this is through taxes.
1. If property is foreign owned and empty (for more than 30 days) tax owner 30% of market value
2. If property is UK owner and empty for more than 60 days, tax owner 3% of market value
The problem we have is the tories and nigel farage et al will all go up in arms over this. These properties are being used to park cash and grow value.
Everyday on the overground on the way to Liverpool Street, around Bethnal Green, I can see through multiple buildings, maybe 3-6 of them that are filled with dozens of flats completely empty, unoccupied. It’s been that way for at least 6 years. Meanwhile a few hundred meters away, there’s loads of homeless people roaming the area. I’ve always wondered how these flats are allowed to sit empty for years.
Lets start filling them with the homeless
Yes. The other councils need to follow suit. This has been a long time coming-desperate measures for desperate times.
Any ideas how they know it is empty? It is a simple as people declaring it empty to reduce council tax? Meaning that if the owner simply paid full council tax, the council wouldn’t know it was empty and they could avoid any punishment?
Where’s that user from yesterday talking shit that unoccupied proprieties and properties owned by foreigners are the lowest % in the world
I understand one of the offices at 55 Tufton Street is empty.
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Yes, please.
Yeasssss!!! Is there a way for us to support this?
Absolutely crazy if they allow this.
Doesn’t matter who owns these properties, councils shouldn’t be able to just seize them.
Outrageous precedent to make for the state to seize someone’s property if they judge them unworthy of having it
You really want to let faceless council officers make judgements on if you get to keep your property or not?
Do what we say or we’ll send the bailiffs round? Council Tax is already enough of an outrage as essentially a tax on being alive.
What govt should do is scale housing, make it much cheaper to buy and create market conditions where house prices go down with usage not up.
Prime real estate with the threat of being seized to house homeless families? You better believe the owners will reemerge and those houses will conveniently become occupied.
If they actually do that I’ll change my name by deed poll to Westminster Council. Westminster is the name, Council the surname.
six months feels like a horrifically short timeframe for this. it’s less than the completely normal amount of time it takes to clear out and sell a deceased relative’s house
This is just a red herring. London’s unoccupancy rates are below average compared to the rest of the UK, and the UK as a whole has very low unoccupancy rates.
The problem isn’t the relatively small number of empty properties, it’s the complete and utter lack of housebuilding.
The easiest way to solve this is through taxes.
1. If property is foreign owned and empty (for more than 30 days) tax owner 30% of market value
2. If property is UK owner and empty for more than 60 days, tax owner 3% of market value
The problem we have is the tories and nigel farage et al will all go up in arms over this. These properties are being used to park cash and grow value.
Everyday on the overground on the way to Liverpool Street, around Bethnal Green, I can see through multiple buildings, maybe 3-6 of them that are filled with dozens of flats completely empty, unoccupied. It’s been that way for at least 6 years. Meanwhile a few hundred meters away, there’s loads of homeless people roaming the area. I’ve always wondered how these flats are allowed to sit empty for years.
Lets start filling them with the homeless
Yes. The other councils need to follow suit. This has been a long time coming-desperate measures for desperate times.
Any ideas how they know it is empty? It is a simple as people declaring it empty to reduce council tax? Meaning that if the owner simply paid full council tax, the council wouldn’t know it was empty and they could avoid any punishment?
Where’s that user from yesterday talking shit that unoccupied proprieties and properties owned by foreigners are the lowest % in the world
I understand one of the offices at 55 Tufton Street is empty.
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