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Author: Steve Grimshaw (page 3)

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NUE – Breaking New Ground

Posted on: May 28, 2020 Last updated on: August 7, 2024 Written by: Steve Grimshaw
No Use Empty, Kent County Council’s award-winning empty homes initiative has announced a new £12 million fund to bring derelict sites back to life. The scheme provides loans to developers to bring derelict land and empty homes back into use.…
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NUE A home from the heart

Posted on: May 7, 2020 Last updated on: May 7, 2020 Written by: Steve Grimshaw
7 Castle Street  A home from the heart  A father and his daughter drove past this run down property in Castle Street. His daughter said to her father ‘how sad to see a property so run down and not looked…
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NUE reflects – 6,326 empty homes back into use

Posted on: May 7, 2020 Last updated on: May 7, 2020 Written by: Steve Grimshaw
No Use Empty reflects on the past financial year No Use Empty (NUE), Kent County Council’s award winning empty homes initiative has to date returned 6,326 homes back to use. The scheme, which provides an exemplar model to tackle the…
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NUE featured on BBC The Empty Housing Scandal

Posted on: March 4, 2020 Last updated on: August 23, 2024 Written by: Steve Grimshaw
The Empty Housing Scandal BBC documentary consists of 10 episodes , currently available on their I-Player to view. NUE projects in Folkestone (Episode Two) and Dover (Episode Seven) are featured. Host Matt Allwright investigates why homes are being left empty…
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NUE Commercial – giving the high street a boost

Posted on: January 24, 2020 Last updated on: January 24, 2020 Written by: Steve Grimshaw
A WELCOME RETAIL BOOST – HIGH STREET BUSINESS SUPPORTED BY COUNCIL SCHEMES  A new business on Deal High Street is looking forward to realising its full potential – with news that a previously empty shop has reopened in the town…
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NUE Folkestone and Hythe – Derelict site revitalised

Posted on: October 7, 2019 Last updated on: March 4, 2020 Written by: Steve Grimshaw
A site in Folkestone which stood derelict for 14 years has been brought back to life thanks to the award-winning No Use Empty scheme The land – situated at the junction of Princess Street and Myrtle Road – has been…
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NUE lazing about by the River! – 8 new homes

Posted on: September 24, 2019 Last updated on: August 7, 2024 Written by: Steve Grimshaw
Dublin Mews, River, Dover Thanks to No Use Empty a former pub – the Dublin Man of War (River, Nr Dover) which had been empty for 3 years has been transformed to create 3 new dwellings. In addition to this…
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NUE – Empty Homes Week

Posted on: September 22, 2019 Last updated on: August 23, 2024 Written by: Steve Grimshaw
NUE – Empty Homes Week No Use Empty is pleased to be supporting national Empty Homes Week 2019 running from 23-29 September 2019. The week is organised by Action on Empty Homes. The aim of the week is to highlight…
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NUE Goes Commercial

Posted on: September 4, 2019 Last updated on: August 23, 2024 Written by: Steve Grimshaw
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NUE celebrating National Empty Homes Week

Posted on: September 4, 2019 Last updated on: August 7, 2024 Written by: Steve Grimshaw
National Empty Homes Week 2019 National Empty Homes Week will take place from Monday 23 September to 29th September 2019. Every year local authorities, housing providers, community-led organisations and others see Empty Homes Week as an opportunity to organise events…
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NUE – Margate: Beautifully Restored, 1 & 2 Bedroom Grade II Listed Apartments

  A prominent building on Margate seafront, which had fallen into disrepair over the past decade, is now complete, thanks to KCC’s No Use Empty scheme. The grade II listed building in Marine Gardens consists of two adjoining four-storey  terraced…
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Empty Homes Week 2025 – Kent County Council

    National Empty Homes Week, which begins on Monday March 3rd, is being marked in Kent with the news that Kent County Council’s No Use Empty (NUE) initiative has brought 8,607 empty properties back into use.   Empty properties…
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NUE – New future for once unloved property

A once-infamous address in Folkestone has been transformed with the help of  the No Use Empty initiative. Number 45 Augusta Gardens is the current jewel in the crown of the No Use Empty (NUE) scheme with all those involved in…
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NUE – Beerlings Farm, Ramsgate – 17 new homes!

  Down at Beerlings Farm – NUE have been growing houses ! Local property developers Pemberton Homes have worked with the No Use Empty team to bring you a fantastic private development of 17 bespoke 2, 3 and 4 bedroom…
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NUE – Queens House in Folkestone to be given a new lease of life!

                    Local developer William Brown who has worked with No Use Empty on various projects is now transforming this prime town centre building. Queens House which sits neatly on the corner…
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