A woman who left her partner scarred for life after stabbing him several times has been allowed to walk free from the High Court in Dundee.
03.07.2022 - 07:19 / dailyrecord.co.uk
More than 100,000 homes in Scotland have nobody living in them – with some lying empty for decades. Campaigners believe getting local authorities to buy the vacant properties could hold the key to easing Scotland’s national housing shortage.
Figures from government body National Records Scotland show 112,300 properties – 4.2 per cent of all dwellings – are unoccupied at any one time. That’s almost one for every 20 Scottish homes.
Of that total, 15,912 have lain empty for between six and 12 months, and 27,584 for more than a year. An estimated 130,000 people in Scotland are homeless or on waiting lists.
But housing campaigners believe the figure could be dramatically reduced if the empty homes were put back into use. They want councils to use compulsory purchase orders to buy and repair the vacant properties.
The Scottish Empty Homes Partnership (SEHP), funded by the Scottish Government and backed by Shelter Scotland, believes 44,000 homes could be brought back into use this way. It said homes become empty for a variety of reasons including the owner dying or going into care and legal disputes over ownership.
SEHP’s Shaheena Din said: “They might also need upgrading and the owner can’t afford the cost. Empty, derelict or abandoned homes can cause a blight on the local community and affect the quality of life for their neighbours. Bringing them back into use will, in turn, help to address the housing and homeless emergency.”
The number of long-term empty houses in Scotland is seven per cent higher than in 2019. The cities with the highest number last year were Edinburgh with 6180, Aberdeen with 6006 and Glasgow with 2958.
Last year, SEHP helped get 1152 empty properties back into use. One success was an old police station and
A woman who left her partner scarred for life after stabbing him several times has been allowed to walk free from the High Court in Dundee.
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