Updates on Empty house

Update by anonymous

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 18:14:55 +0000

Last week magistrates imposed a £1000 fine on the owner (a Christine Davies?) for not having cleared the front and back gardens. So no change there, then. Other penalties will be enforced unless the whole place is made shipshape by summer 2012 - 33 years after it became vacant. The Compulsory Purchase Order process rumbles along, apparently.
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Update by anonymous

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:47:57 +0100

This problem has now become a local news item - TV, radio, newspaper and web reports all this week. See www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOo64Dx83Ck www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-15352172 www.theargus.co.uk/news/9314165.Brighton_home_left_empty_for_32_years/
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Update by anonymous

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:02:34 +0100

There is no sign of the expected public inquiry/appeal, which is somewhat disappointing the the neighbourhood which is blighted by the empty property and is depriving someone, somewhere, of a home.
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Update by anonymous

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:51:17 +0100

It seems certain that there will be a public inquiry in September into the Compulsory Purchase Order.
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Update by anonymous

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:14:40 +0100

There were some squatters there for a while earlier this month but I believe they may have left already.
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Update by anonymous

Thu, 05 May 2011 12:25:53 +0100

A Compulsory Purchase Order has been raised against the house. Documents show the owner received £50,000 from the Council some time ago to make it habitable but the work was not finished and the money not repaid. If the owner objects to the CPO there will be a public inquiry.
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Update by anonymous

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 11:21:04 +0100

A Council notice of compulsory purchase has appeared on the property but that doesn't mean anything unless the Council goes through with it. Nobody has lived there for decades. It's a blight on the community.
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Update by anonymous

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:14:20 +0000

Apparently the owner is now required to clean up their back garden. Yet they are still allowed to leave the house empty...
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Update by anonymous

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:34:10 +0100

It seems that the Council has, once again, decided not to impose a compulsory purchase order. So the community is still saddled with an empty home and an absent owner.
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Update by anonymous

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:05:32 +0100

The community is waiting to see if the Council is going to proceed with the long-awaited compulsory purchase order.
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Update by anonymous

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 11:49:47 +0100

The Council plans to compulsarily purchase this property if it is not put back into permanent occupation by the end of August 2010. This follows two previous compulsory purchase processes which never came to anything. Everyone who supports the process to compulsarily purchase this property and return it to use as a home after decades of standing empty should contact Emma Kumar, Empty Property Officer Brighton & Hove, 01273 29 3297
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Update by anonymous

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:40:52 +0000

This month's Council newspaper boasts of turning dozens of empty properties into homes. Yet the Council has let this one stand empty for more than 20 years. Why?
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