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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

Tony Dillamore

Hannah Lamb

Britain's Empty Homes: Series 3: Episode 13: Alan and Katy Jackson

Series 3

Episode 13

Episode 13: Alan and Katy Jackson

Alan and Katy Jackson

BBC One - Britain's Empty Homes, Series 3, Alan and Katy Jackson

Alan Jackson and his daughter Katy want to start a new life in the countryside.

Series revealing the potential of vacant properties. Joe Crowley meets Alan Jackson and his daughter Katy who want to start a new life by swapping London for the countryside.

Joe Crowley meets civil engineer Alan Jackson and his actress daughter Katy who think they have got what is needed to take on an empty property. Alan lost his wife after a long battle with cancer and now he wants to start a new life by swapping London's suburbia for the countryside.  

They view an old chapel for sale in West Sussex and get advice from professional barn builder Steve Brewer and his partner Sarah, who are close to finishing the transformation of  a cluster of old barns in to one beautiful home.

Plus, a look at how residents on the south coast are campaining to save a historic bath house that has been empty for 14 years, and we join one of the UK's Empty Property officers as he tracks down the owners of forgotten houses and reinvigorates the neighbourhoods blighted by them.

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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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