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22-534: The Empty Homes Agency was established in 1992 by Antony Fletcher with assistance from Serge Lourie as a registered charity in England that works to help people create homes from empty properties and campaigns for more empty homes to be brought into use for the benefit of those in housing need. In 2010 it changed its operational name to Empty Homes . The founding director was Bob Lawrence. In 2018 it changed its name to Action on Empty Homes . The Empty Homes Agency

44-508: A dacha in Kislovodsk . Wolkenstein was able to lease some of the rooms in his Rostov-on-Don house, which became a revenue house . The Revenue house of Wolkenstein  [ ru ] building still exists today, and is considered a regional architectural monument. Wolkenstein and Chekhov were both active in the theatrical world. The Asmolov Theatre  [ ru ] founded by Vladimir Ivanovich Asmolov  [ ru ]

66-405: A campaign to allow councils to reduce of eliminate council tax discounts on empty properties, which David Ireland previously referred to as ‘nonsense’ on the charity's blog. In 2010 Empty Homes successfully campaigned for additional public spending for bringing empty homes into use. The Government announced that it would allocate £100 million for schemes bringing empty homes into use as part of

88-488: A collective statement that all of them would leave the gymnasium if Wolkenstein was not reinstated. That had an effect, and Wolkenstein was reinstated and later graduated from the gymnasium. Then Wolkenstein studied at the faculty of law of Saint Petersburg State University . In 1888 he was a lawyer's assistant ( Russian : помощник присяжного поверенного ) and took part in a trial on a case of poisoning. Maximenko (Максименко) had been accused of poisoning her husband, but she

110-671: Is a charitable industrial and provident society , as well as a charitable housing association, and a member of the National Federation of Housing. It is a registered charity in England, No. 27697R, but is registered under the Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1965 and thus not registered with the Charity Commission . Will McMahon was appointed as Director in May 2018. The charity publishes year statistics on

132-599: The Cut the VAT Coalition which believes that reducing VAT from 17.5% to 5% for all maintenance and home improvement work would help the Government achieve its target of cutting carbon emissions by 60% by 2050, as well as encourage the refurbishment and use of empty properties. It has successfully persuaded government to change the rules on VAT, with discounts currently at 5%. In 2003, Empty Homes successfully lobbied for

154-899: The Opposition. He lost his seat in 2010 . In 1989 he was awarded a fellowship by the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust , studying urban renewal and housing in France and the United States. From 1990 and 1994 he chaired the London Boroughs Grants Committee, awarding grants of around £29m to the voluntary sector in Greater London. He was a board member of the London Tourist Board where he deputised for

176-769: The United Kingdom Housing Trust, Kingston Hospital NHS Trust and Sanctuary Housing Association. He had also been the General Secretary of Help the Aged and a board member of the London Pensions Fund Authority and the Notting Hill Housing Trust . Lourie was born on 22 February 1946. He was of Russian extraction and was the great-grandson of Lev Philippovitch Wolkenstein . His mother

198-742: The chairman, Sir John Egan . He chaired the Independent Panel on members' remuneration for the Association of Police Authorities and was a member of the Metropolitan Police Committee. He was a board member of Richmond Charities and of Kew Community Trust as well as chairing Poems in the Waiting Room , a British charity providing poetry cards to doctors ' waiting rooms in England and Wales . He

220-537: The comprehensive spending review. Following this funding, academic research has been published on 'empty homes' projects; for example, in 2016 an article in Public Money and Management which examined the dynamics of a successful collaborative 'empty homes' partnership comprising housing associations, social enterprises and local government. The charity has been responsible for helping dozens of local authorities set up successful empty property strategies, and in 2010

242-417: The government to introduce empty dwelling management orders (EDMOs) – legislation to enable local authorities to take over the management control of dwellings that have been empty for six months or more in a forced lease scheme. The legislation caused considerable controversy, although the orders have only been issued a handful of times since the legislation came into practice in 2006. Empty Homes are part of

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264-603: The last years of his life in Paris and wrote for Illustrated Russia ( Russian : Иллюстрированная Россия ) magazine. In 1934, he published his own memories of Anton Chekhov in the magazine. On 20 May 1935, Lev Wolkenstein died in Paris . His widow Sofia Efremovna Wolkenstein lived several years more, and then on 4 January 1940 she died in Vulaines and was buried at Nouveau Cimetiere de Neuilly . Lev's son, George Wolkenstein,

286-456: The mid 1890s Wolkenstein lived in this house with his wife Sofia Efremovna Wolkenstein ( Russian : Софья Ефремовна Волкенштейн ) (?—1940), his daughters (Alisa and Olga) and his young son Yuri/Georg Wolkenstein (1892—?), who later became a lawyer in Paris. Chekhov visited Wolkenstein at his home, and may have talked with him about the staging of Chekhov's plays in the theatres of Rostov-on-Don. According to Chekhov, at 1896 Wolkenstein also had

308-701: The number of empty homes in England. In 2018 Action on Empty Homes estimated that there were 216,000 empty homes in the UK, the highest level for a decade. The charity has also put out numerous publications on how to bring empty properties back into use, for both owners as well as members of the public. The charity highlights the level of housing need in the UK and believes that bringing more empty homes into use provides more homes that in turn helps to ease housing need. The charity has mounted several campaigns aimed at changing government policy to help more empty homes to be brought into use. Its successes include successfully lobbying

330-659: Was Anna Rootchenko. He was educated at St Paul's School, London and Worcester College, Oxford (1965–68), graduating from the University of Oxford with a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics . Lourie qualified as a chartered accountant with Cooper Brothers in 1971 (now PricewaterhouseCoopers ). He was a Labour Party member of Westminster City Council (1971–74) and the Greater London Council member for Hornchurch (1973–77) where he

352-707: Was a patron of Cultural Co-operation , a charity that ran world music festivals. In 2015, he was appointed Chairman of the Charity Appeal Committee of Kingston Hospital to raise £750,000 to improve the treatment of patients with dementia . He lived in Kew , Greater London and was married with two children. He was a regular runner, who completed five marathons, and ran frequently in the Richmond Park parkrun . Lev Philippovitch Wolkenstein He

374-639: Was acquitted. A famous Russian lawyer Fedor Plevako  [ ru ; uk ] and prison doctor Mark Krasso (Марк Крассо) also took part in that trial. In the 1890s, Wolkenstein became a lawyer of the Novocherkassk court board ( Russian : Новочеркасская судебная палата ) and juror lawyer  [ ru ] . In 1890 he bought a house in Rostov-on-Don at the corner of Staro-pochtovaya street (now Stanislavskogo street) and Kazansky lane (now Gazetny lane), and made extensive repairs to it. From

396-516: Was asked by the Homes and Communities Agency to help administer a comprehensive training programme to help several authorities that were struggling. Serge Lourie Alexander Serge Lourie CF (22 February 1946 – 10 September 2024 ) was a former Leader of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames , where he was a local government councillor from 1982 to 2010. He was Chairman of

418-467: Was born as Isaak-Leib Fishelevich Wolkenstein ( Russian : Исаак-Лейб Фишелевич Волкенштейн ) in 1858, presumably in Taganrog . Wolkenstein was brother of Michael Philippovitch Wolkenstein  [ ru ] , who was a Russian lawyer. Lev Wolkenstein studied at Taganrog Classical Male Gymnasium ( Russian : Таганрогская классическая мужская гимназия ) at the same time as Anton Chekhov . When Chekhov

440-572: Was chair of scrutiny and vice-chair of finance. He was elected as an SDP–Liberal Alliance councillor for Kew on Richmond upon Thames London Borough Council in 1982, becoming a Liberal Democrat following the merger of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and the Liberal Party in 1988. In 1990 , he was re-elected as a Liberal Democrat. Lourie spent fourteen years as Leader, and also served as Deputy Leader and Leader of

462-499: Was in seventh grade and Wolkenstein was in undergraduate eighth grade, all of the students in Wolkenstein's class except him refused to write an essay prescribed for them. This caused conflict between Wolkenstein and his classmates. One of them called Wolkenstein a " zhyd " and Wolkenstein slapped him in the face. For this assault and battery, Wolkenstein was expelled from the gymnasium. After that, Chekhov induced classmates to write

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484-629: Was the biggest and most famous theatre in Rostov-on-Don at that time. In 1910 Asmolov sold this theatre to Lev Wolkenstein and Iosif Moiseevich Fain ( Russian : Иосиф Моисеевич Файн ). Wolkenstein had been writing scripts for several theatrical performances, for example, the vaudeville Hussars and Doves ( Russian : Гусары и голуби ). At this time he was also working as a lawyer for the Priazovsky Kray  [ ru ] newspaper. Later Wolkenstein emigrated from Russia. He spent

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