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Britain's Empty Homes

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Show revealing the potential vacant places can offer in terms of budget and lifestyle.

Series revealing the great potential that vacant places can offer in terms of budget and lifestyle, and following the work of the nation's empty property officers.

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Britain's Empty Homes: Series 3

Joe Crowley

Dan Gilbert

Hannah Lamb

Britain's Empty Homes: Series 3: Episode 3: Christina and Karl Yau

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Episode 3: Christina and Karl Yau

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Joe Crowley meets a couple who took a leap of faith and bought a 19th-century chapel.

Series revealing the potential that vacant properties can offer potential buyers. Joe Crowley meets a couple who took a leap of faith and bought a 19th-century chapel in Hampshire.

Joe Crowley presents the series revealing the potential that vacant properties can offer potential buyers. Joe meets Karl and Christina Yau, who took a leap of faith and bought a 19th-century chapel in Hampshire without planning permission. 

Two years on, with permission finally granted, they are now beginning the delicate process of creating their dream home. Joe takes the first-time renovators to meet a couple who took on a similar renovation and created their perfect home from a ruined 16th-century barn. 

Plus Joe looks into the do's and don'ts when applying for planning permission, and one of the UK's empty property officers is on a mission to bring abandoned homes on the south coast back into use.

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Joe Crowley reveals the great potential that vacant places can offer in terms of budget and lifestyle, and follows the work of the nation's empty property officers.

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