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…
Government announces £100M Fund to bring empty homes back into use as part of the Comprehensive Spending Review.
In a letter to council leaders outlining the coalition’s housing reforms over the next four years, housing minister Grant Shapps gave details of the new scheme as part of a £6.5 billion investment in housing by the Department for Communities…
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…
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.…
Empty Property Owners in Dartford to be Awarded Interest Free Loans to Renovate Derelict Homes
No Use Empty, a Kent-wide initiative which is helping to bring empty properties back into use, has joined forces with Dartford Borough Council to help the owners of empty homes renovate their properties and create a new accommodation for the…
No Use Empty helps Dover warehouse renovation
An old derelict warehouse in the town centre of Dover has been transformed into stunning new apartments thanks to an initiative which is helping create new homes by recycling long term empty properties. Dover District Council is a founding member…
Conservative Party joins empty homes fight
The Conservative party has offered its support to No Use Empty and the Empty Homes Agency to help bring some of the UK’s estimated 1 million empty homes back into use. The party claims its Empty Property Rescue Scheme can…
Dover District Council gives long term empty properties a new lease of life
Dover District Council and No Use Empty, the Kent empty property initiative, can announce that they have helped to bring a local property at King Street, Dover back into use to the community. The property in King Street had been…

