Boarded Up Britain, a website aimed to document all of the boarded up buildings in Great Britain will be launched on 26 November 2012 and members of the public are now being encouraged to upload derelict buildings in their area to help raise awareness of them in the hope that something will be done about them. Boarded Up Britain was founded by affordable property developer FreshStart Living who want to draw attention to the UK’s boarded up buildings so they can be transformed into affordable properties.
Matthew Dyas’s Vision for Boarded Up Britain
Research suggests that unless 300,000-330,000 new homes are built every year, the UK will fail to deal with a backlog of 2m few homes. Last year 390,000 new households formed – yet only 114,000 new homes were built. FreshStart Living believe the answer lies with the UK’s existing boarded up buildings which can be transformed quickly and cost effectively into affordable properties. Matthew Dyas, Boarded Up Britain coordinator said:
“No matter where you look nowadays you’ll find an empty building. Homes, pubs, warehouses and mills abandoned and left to rot. You can’t even escape it on the high street, with over one in ten shops now lying vacant. “We want to draw attention to these buildings and put an end to Boarded Up Britain, but we need the public’s help to do it. If you’re sick of that derelict building up at the end of your street, upload it to the website and let’s try and do something about it. “Through Boarded Up Britain we want to collect information on all the derelict buildings across Britain so we can find out who owns them and put pressure on them to do something about it. We want to take a use it or lose it stance, why have a building sat there when it could be transformed into something that would be more useful such as affordable housing or even a community centre.”
Article courtesy of Property Investor Today
