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…
Could the No Use Empty model be adopted by Scottish councils ?
Trailblazing Scheme Could Help Unlock Scotland’s Empty Homes An innovative scheme proven to bring empty homes back into use by providing interest-free loans to their owners could be adopted by Scottish councils. ‘No Use Empty’ is the brainchild of Kent…
BRISTOL CITY COUNCIL are the first to follow Kent’s Lead On Empty Homes.
It has been announced today that Kent County Council’s pioneering ‘No Use Empty’ scheme, which is now in its 5th Year and has returned 1,627 empty properties across Kent back into use, will be rolled out in Bristol. Bristol City…
Local Government Chronicle – Mar 2011
Bristol City Council adopted a flagship scheme pioneered by Kent County Council to provide interest free loans to owners of empty properties to fund the repairs to bring them back into use Please scroll over the front cover to access…