The HCA debate “maximising the use of empty homes” has been extended to 31st August 2010. The debate will explore new ways to tackle empty homes and to maximise their use and provide the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) and…
Town & Country Planning Act 1990 – Section 215
Recovery Method Recovery through the Courts: Enforced Sales Procedure Introduction It is a well established that poor condition properties have an adverse affect on the neighbourhood. Anyone unfortunate enough to have lived next door to a long term empty property…
Why Empty Homes Are So Important
As the government admits its plans for new houses have stalled because of the recession, there are calls to make better use of the thousands of empty homes around the UK. David Ireland, from the Empty Houses Agency campaign group,…
Dover District Council Returns Long-Term Eyesore Back into the Community
Dover District Council (DDC) and No Use Empty, the Kent empty property initiative, can announce that they have helped to bring another local property on Alkham Road in Dover back into use to the community. The Council, in partnership with…
Further 2M Interest-Free Loans
No Use Empty Initiative, the partnership between Kent County Council and the District Borough Councils, which is helping to bring empty properties in Kent back into use goes from strength to strength. A further £2 million interest free loans have…
East Kent Mercury – May 2010
A scheme which encourages owners to bring their empty properties back into use is celebrating its sucess in the Dover district. Please scroll over the front cover to access PDF version of the article
At Your Service – Spring 2010
Taking Action On Empty Homes Dover District Council continues to work with Kent’s No Use Empty Campaign to address the number of empty homes across the area – read an article which demonstrates the powers available to the local council…
Kent Pioneers Architect In The Empty House Initiative
No Use Empty, the initiative which is helping to bring empty properties in Kent back into use, has teamed up with a pioneering new scheme to offer owners of empty properties a FREE design and renovation consultation with an architect.…
Property Drum – Oct 2009
Can empty homes provide a short answer to the UK’s national hosing shortage and feed a starving property market? No Use Empty is the largest and most successful scheme of its kind in the country, according to the charity, Empty…
Newsletter Edition No 5
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