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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 4

Joe Crowley

Tony Dillamore

Hannah Lamb

Britain's Empty Homes: Series 4: Episode 7: David Tinker and Philippa Constantine

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Episode 7: David Tinker and Philippa Constantine

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David Tinker and Philippa Constantine

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Joe Crowley meets a couple who are hunting for a crumbling country abode to call home.

Property series. Joe Crowley meets David Tinker and his partner Phillippa Constantine who, along with their chickens, are hunting for a crumbling country abode to call home.

In this episode, Joe meets David Tinker and his partner Phillippa Constantine who, along with their chickens, are hunting for a crumbling country abode to call home. Joe shows them a derelict house in the heart of the countryside that ticks all of their boxes. He then takes them to meet a father and son team who have cleverly renovated an old cow shed into a four-bedroomed home.

Also, what to do should you discover that you are sharing your empty property with a colony of bats and another look at the work of Mike Thompson, the empty property officer for the Kent coast, as he checks off another empty property that he's brought 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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