Revealed: The homes left empty in the Vale of Glamorgan

The Vale of Glamorgan as a whole has identified 56 properties unoccupied due to major repairs or structural alteration, 420 properties unoccupied less than six months, 640 properties unoccupied more than six months and 345 properties unoccupied for other reasons.

Retail units - defined as shop, retail warehouse, hotel, hairdressing salon, studio, public house, café, restaurant, bakery, kiosk, bank - where a till would probably be used by the proprietor - identified 320 unoccupied premises.

A bid to bring hundreds of homes in the Vale back into use went out to public consultation in November last year and ran until mid December

Empty homes in the vale of Glamorgan:

Barry
Properties unoccupied due to major repairs or structural alteration = 9
Properties unoccupied less than six months = 223
Properties unoccupied more than six months = 256
Properties unoccupied for other reasons = 122

Penarth
Properties unoccupied due to major repairs or structural alteration = 21
Properties unoccupied less than six months = 68
Properties unoccupied more than six months = 107
Properties unoccupied for other reasons = 74

Wenvoe
Properties unoccupied due to major repairs or structural alteration = 0
Properties unoccupied less than six months = 5
Properties unoccupied more than six months = 5
Properties unoccupied for other reasons = 10

Sully
Properties unoccupied due to major repairs or structural alteration = 1
Properties unoccupied less than six months = 12
Properties unoccupied more than six months = 52
Properties unoccupied for other reasons = 11

Dinas Powys
Properties unoccupied due to major repairs or structural alteration = 1
Properties unoccupied less than six months = 11
Properties unoccupied more than six months = 18
Properties unoccupied for other reasons = 25

Retail units identified as ‘empty’:

Barry 63
Penarth 8
Wenvoe 5
Sully 0
Dinas Powys 3
Rhoose 1
Llantwit 6
Cowbridge 4
Vale of Glamorgan as a whole 320 “Empty homes”