Government misses its own target on vacant homes by 70%

Efforts to bring vacant homes back into use have been a "huge failure" as it emerged that the Government has missed its own targets by 70%. Picture: Larry Cummins

Efforts to bring vacant homes back into use have been a "huge failure" as it emerged that the Government has missed its own targets by 70%.

Over the past four years, just 1,672 of the 5,600 homes promised have been delivered via the three schemes set up to bring vacant properties back into use.