Braintree district: Number of empty homes among highest in east of England

10:00am Tuesday 28th August 2012 in News

District has 1,711 empty homes District has 1,711 empty homes

Braintree district has one of the highest number of empty homes in the East of England.
 

Figures from the Department for Communities and Local Government show there were 1,711 empty homes up until October last year.
 

It equates to 2.8 per cent of the estimated 61,290 housing association, public and private sector homes in the district.
 

The GMB union, which has used the figures to rank each district, said Braintree is 14th out of 47 local authority areas in the East of England for the percentage of empty homes.

Comments(6)

Bhudeeka says...
12:33pm Wed 29 Aug 12

so why keep building new ones?!

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Bit_Bytr says...
5:55pm Wed 29 Aug 12

I would like to know whether they are repossessed or council owned. I would like to know why some homes are bought and sold and these aren't.

But that would take a reporter's inquisitiveness to follow that line of enquiry and sadly, those that write for this rag don't seem to fall into that category.

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pommyden says...
8:18pm Wed 29 Aug 12

There are literally hundreds of single homeless in Braintree. All the single homeless charities and organisations are snowed under with requests for housing. BDC are under no legal obligation to help this group of people so they just turn them away. How has our civised society become so uncaring and corrupt?

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Bit_Bytr says...
10:41pm Wed 29 Aug 12

You're making assumptions that the BDC owns those houses: they are most likely private property and while your motives are honourable you miss a salient point. They are not theirs (BDC) to give away. I imagine quite a few of the "hundreds" of homeless formerly owed those houses and were kicked out for inability to pay for them.

How do you address that? Get them back into the workforce, is how.

"We" are not corrupt, as you would have us believe. We're a society of laws. Think about it …

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pommyden says...
7:36pm Mon 3 Sep 12

No disrespect intended but what you may 'imagine' to be part of the problem and what those of us who work at the coal front know to be part of the problem may be two very different things. BDC don't own any houses so my comments about curruption were intended to be much wider than that. I guess this isnt the forum to go into too much depth. If our bankers, businesses and politians arn't currupt then I don't know who is. Of-course we need work creation but lets pay people enough to live on. Minimum wage is less than the cost of renting a home to live in.

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Bit_Bytr says...
1:27am Tue 4 Sep 12

I don't like your condescension. I imagine you are even more self-righteous in person. I am in business. I am not and nor is my business corrupt. I have been at the coal front - as you put it. I know what that's like. I also know what it's like to be faced with foreclosure.

I know several politicians. They are not corrupt.

I imagine it is your thinking that I could paint as corrupt, cynical and even bitter. I imagine I'd not like you very much and that your perspectives are entrenched in an old fashioned and discredited system born in the fifties:one that birthed the current generation mired in an attitude of entitlement instead of individual achievement.

We wouldn't agree on much except our mutual dislike.

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