Swale Borough Council to offer loans to owners to help bring unused properties back into use. Owners of properties in Swale that are currently lying empty and unused will now be able to apply for interest-free loans in order to…
Warren Court Hotel
Demolition work is now underway on a former eyesore site in Cliftonville that Thanet District Council has been working to bring back into use for a number of years. The former Warren Court Hotel in Arthur Road has been one…
National Week Of Action On Empty Homes
The Empty Homes Agency estimates that there are now one million homes empty in the UK. However actions taken by Swale Borough Council see it in the top quartile in the Country in terms of bringing empty properties back into…
No Use Empty Passes 2,000 Home Milestone
NO USE EMPTY PASSES 2,000 HOME MILESTONE UK’s longest-running empty homes initiative has now returned over 2,000 empties to use No Use Empty, Kent County Council’s (KCC) initiative to return empty homes to use, announces today that it has created…
Empty Homes Toolkit Launched by Homes and Communities Agency (HCA)
HEAR HOUSING MINISTER, THE RT. HON. GRANT SHAPPS EXPLAIN HOW THIS TOOLKIT CAN HELP TO SOLVE THE ‘EMPTY HOMES SCANDAL’ AND ACCESS THE TOOLKIT IN FULL: There are enough empty properties in England to provide hundreds of thousands of people…
This Is Kent – May 2011
Derelict building in Dover to get new lease of life Please scroll over the front cover to access PDF version of the article
Grand Old Building in Dover Given New Lease Of Life
Works have started to bring a derelict building in Dover back to life thanks to funding from Kent County Council’s No Use Empty Scheme. Private development company, Vernon Investments, has secured a loan of £175,000 from the scheme, so it…
No Use Empty dough helps Bakery rise again!
A former bakery in St Peter’s, Broadstairs, is being given a fresh lease of life with the help of funding from Kent County Council’s No Use Empty scheme. Local chartered surveyors, Urban Surveying and Design, has used a £50,000 loan…
Property Week – April 2011
Bristol Adopts Innovative Empty Homes Scheme Please scroll over the front cover to access PDF version of the article
Inside Housing – Apr 2011
Bristol City Council are the first authority outside of Kent to adopt the No Use Empty brand as they launch their own campain to address the problem of tackling empty homes. Please scroll over the front cover to access PDF…