Issue - meetings

The Committee resolved:-

(i)             to note the progress Aberdeen City Council was making in relation to empty homes, which included how they were brought back into use; and

(ii)            to instruct the Chief Officer – Housing to include an update on empty homes as part of the Housing Board bi-annual report, which would replace the update to Committee.

The Committee had before it a report by the Chief Officer – Housing, which updated Members on the progress Council was making in relation to empty homes. 

The report noted that the Empty Homes Officers worked with owners of empty private residential properties to bring them back into use.  780 empty properties had been brought back into use since the service was introduced in 2018, with the target of 90 properties to be brought back into use over 2023/24, exceeded.

The report recommended:-

that the Committee –

(a)           notes the progress Aberdeen City Council was making in relation to empty homes, which included how they were brought back into use; and

(b)           instructs the Chief Officer – Housing to include an update on empty homes as part of the Housing Board bi-annual report, which would replace the update to Committee.

The Committee resolved:-

to approve the recommendations.