Raising awareness of the empty property issue
This policy aims to develop a corporate approach by linking the Council services whose work is pertinent to the issue. These include:
- Environmental Health TeamCommunications Team
- Council Tax
- Legal Services
- Estates Team
- Planning and Building Control
We will ensure a coordinated approach to the issue and use our various communications channels to make empty residential property owners aware of this policy. This will include relevant information on the council website as well as frontline officers being provided with information on the issue to identify and report potential problem empty residential properties.