{"id":37582,"date":"2017-06-20T08:13:16","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T07:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=37582"},"modified":"2017-06-20T08:13:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T07:13:16","slug":"there-is-empty-property-in-kensington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2017\/06\/20\/there-is-empty-property-in-kensington\/","title":{"rendered":"There is empty property in Kensington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My comments on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2017\/06\/19\/the-case-for-requisitioning-property-for-the-people-of-kensington\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">requisitioning property in Kensington<\/a> proved both popular and controversial yesterday so I am pleased to have been pointed in the direction of some research that shows that there is empty property in the borough. Bryan Rylands pointed <a href=\"https:\/\/whoownsengland.org\/2017\/06\/18\/where-are-the-empty-homes-in-kensington\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">out this excellent blog<\/a> by Who Owns England? I recommend reading it. And for the record, it would seem that there is property available, as shown on this map:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2017\/06\/20\/there-is-empty-property-in-kensington\/screen-shot-2017-06-20-at-08-09-34\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-37583\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-37583\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-20-at-08.09.34-550x664.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-20-at-08.09.34-550x664.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-20-at-08.09.34-248x300.png 248w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-20-at-08.09.34-768x928.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-20-at-08.09.34-186x225.png 186w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-20-at-08.09.34-109x132.png 109w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-20-at-08.09.34.png 1174w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As they say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The truly insane thing about this map are the blue dots showing homes that have been empty for 4,200 \u2014 5,734 days. <strong>That\u2019s homes that have lain empty for between 11 and 15 <em>years<\/em>.<\/strong> I count about 50 of them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They may not, of course, be suitable for habitation right now as a result. But the point is that there is empty property. And that means that the option of requisitioning is viable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My comments on requisitioning property in Kensington proved both popular and controversial yesterday so I am pleased to have been pointed in the direction of<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2017\/06\/20\/there-is-empty-property-in-kensington\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}