Empty Houses Up For Sale By Council

Three houses which were presumably purchased as part of the Queen St/Harwood St regeneration have been put up for sale by the council.

They are unlikely to receive much interest in the current market and the houses, which have been empty for over 2 years, are still FOR SALE despite being on the market for a number of weeks already. In a falling market it's unlikely that the council will recover the money they originally paid for them.

The houses form part of a row of terraced houses on Harwood Street which were considered for demolition but the proposed move was rejected because most of the houses were "fit for human habitation".


This made selling the houses on the open market difficult because nobody wanted to buy houses which were once considered for demolition due to their condition.

It is believed that one option was to sell them to a housing association but local opposed this idea and the council have been left with empty properties that it can't sell.