Sentence examples for an empty homes from inspiring English sources

No wonder too that in 2013 the right to levy an "empty homes premium " of up to 150% was conceded to councils.

The protests appear to be working: an empty homes tax last week won the approval of city councillors and is set to be implemented next year.

At present, authorities can charge an empty homes premium  of 50 per cent on top of  the council tax  bill if a property is left empty for two years.

Last year Camelot even sponsored an Empty Homes conference put on by Shelter, the housing and homelessness charity.

Last year Camelot was even allowed to sponsor an Empty Homes conference put on by Shelter, the housing and homelessness charity.

First, she photographed pairs of expectant couples, then different couples who were coping with an empty home after their children grew up and moved out.

Aimless and bereft, Shadow begins the lonely journey to an empty home when he is offered a job as bodyguard to the mysterious Mr Wednesday.

Kfir Yefet's production is completely coherent - Anthony Ward's design projects the idea of an empty home, with tiers of uninhabited bookcases - but its explicitness lowers the tension.

But the police learned that Mr. Cooper had walked away from the minimum security prison where he was serving a burglary sentence and had hidden in an empty home 125 yards away from the crime scene.

Despite the occasional moments of longing for the peace and quiet an empty home could bring, Ms. Schwartz's images of couples whose children had left are often sad and evocative of loss and mortality.

You have to read between the lines -- in scenes about a broken marriage, an empty home, a discredited occupation -- to understand why Zen is really running for his life.