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Category: Case Studies (page 10)

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Harold Road, Cliftonville

Posted on: July 19, 2012 Last updated on: August 7, 2024 Written by: Steve Grimshaw
Planning Permission and Building Regulations were approved for the erection of a three- storey extension following the demolition of the existing extensions to facilitate 8 x 2 Bedroom flats, with a life expectancy of 25 years. This project had already…
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Inside Housing June 2012

Posted on: June 29, 2012 Last updated on: August 7, 2024 Written by: Steve Grimshaw
Inside Housing – Construction Development Special NO USE EMPTY “has been an unmitigated success”, enthuses Mark Dance, Kent County Council’s cabinet member for regeneration and economic development. Please scroll over the front cover to access PDF version of Alex Turner’s…
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Retrofit: Maison Dieu Road

Posted on: May 28, 2012 Last updated on: August 7, 2024 Written by: Steve Grimshaw
Up until 2006, Maison Dieu Road, a detached Victorian villa in Dover was a residential care home, since then it has been left empty. The property had been the subject of anti-social behaviour, including vandalism and squatting in the following few…
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Major eyesore set to be compulsorily purchased

Posted on: November 5, 2011 Last updated on: November 4, 2020 Written by: Steve Grimshaw
One of the final remaining eyesore properties in Cliftonville is set to be compulsorily purchased by Thanet District Council, after objections to the purchase were withdrawn. The Warren Court Hotel at the top end of Dalby Square has been the…
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Property Guardians

Posted on: October 19, 2011 Last updated on: August 7, 2024 Written by: Steve Grimshaw
Occupation of disused buildings such as schools or warehouses Kent County Council has used “Property Guardians’” for a number of their properties, including this day centre. Camelot Property Gaurdian’s installed a shower, smoke alarms, fire blankets and notices and designating…
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Demolition underway on eyesore site in Cliftonville

Posted on: June 28, 2011 Last updated on: November 4, 2020 Written by: Steve Grimshaw
The former Warren Court Hotel in Arthur Road has been one of the key targets of the Council’s empty property initiative, after it became derelict and was the victim of two fires.  The property has been a major eyesore and…
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The Arcadian

Posted on: February 28, 2011 Last updated on: August 7, 2024 Written by: Steve Grimshaw
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…
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Kent’s No Use Empty Kent Property Initiative has reached its 5th Year Anniversary

Posted on: November 5, 2010 Last updated on: August 7, 2024 Written by: Steve Grimshaw
To mark the occasion a short video has been made to show how the campaign brings empty and derelict properties in Kent back into use as much-needed homes. Property owner, Martin Neame, tells how the scheme helped him.
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How Do We Maximise The Use Of Empty Homes ? The HCA debate

Posted on: August 9, 2010 Last updated on: November 4, 2020 Written by: Steve Grimshaw
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…
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Town & Country Planning Act 1990 – Section 215

Posted on: June 19, 2010 Last updated on: November 4, 2020 Written by: Steve Grimshaw
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…
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NUE Receive Special Recognition Award at National Empty Homes Conference 2025

The No Use Empty team at Kent are proud to announce that they received the “Special Recognition Award” and were “Highly Commended” in two categories at the national Empty Homes Network Awards 2025 announced at the Annual Conference 2025 held…
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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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