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…
£4.1 Million Interest Free Loans To Date
Another successful year for Kent County Council’s No Use Empty Initiative, the partnership between Kent and the District Borough Councils, in its 5th Anniversary Year. The total value of interest free loans administered to empty property owners across the County at 31st…
Municipal Journal – Mar 2011
Waste Not, Want Not Kent’s Empty Property Initiative is helping revive local communities by funding renovation work to transform once derelict properties into new homes, KCC’s Regeneration Manager for No Use Empty, Steve Grimshaw explains Please scroll over the front…
The Arcadian
Built in the 1880s, it was originally Lilley’s Hotel Arcadian, a 19th century bolt hole for genteel Victorians leaving smog riddenLondon for Margate’s fresh sea air. The Arcadian was subsequently converted into twelve flats. The property had been unoccupied for many…
The Big Issue – Feb 2011
With the number of empty homes in Britain reaching the million mark, Michael Parker investigates what the government is doing to combat the problem and features Kent’s No Use Empty Initiative Please scroll over the front cover to access PDF…
Property Week – Feb 2011
Public Opinion – Kevin Lynes, KCC Cabinet Member “Our Housing Shortage Solutions starts with Empty Homes” Please scroll over the front cover to access PDF version of the article