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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 5

Joe Crowley

Tony McKee

James Christie-Miller

Murray Donaldson

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Britain's Empty Homes: Series 5: Episode 13: Tim and Deborah Dovey

Episode 13

Episode 13: Tim and Deborah Dovey

Series 5

Tim and Deborah Dovey

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Tim and Deborah Dovery have plans for a Shropshire farm house which was empty for 16 years

Property series. Joe meets Tim and Deborah Dovery, who plan on turning a Shropshire farm house which was empty for 16 years into a large, modernised family home.

Joe Crowley offers invaluable advice for viewers looking to rescue a house for themselves and finds out more about our housing stock, our heritage and why we should be both reinventing and preserving Britain's Empty Homes. The show features ambitious renovations and inspirational transformations, but also highlights the work carried out by the UK's Empty Property Officers, whose job it is to get unoccupied homes back into use. 

In this episode, Joe meets Tim and Deborah Dovey in Shropshire, who have bought a derelict farm house which has been empty for over 16 years. They are keen to share their plans to dramatically modernise and extend the property into a large family home - and to get as much guidance as they can. To give Tim and Deborah tips and inspiration, Joe introduces them to a man who has successfully renovated a large barn into a spacious and modern house. 

In Stoke, Joe learns how the restoration of a large traditional local pottery is helping to kickstart the regeneration of the empty streets and homes around it. Also this episode, Empty Property Officer Iain Cobby continues his mission to save abandoned houses in Shepway, Kent.

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