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Category: Press & Media Coverage

Latest Press & Media coverage of the No Use Empty Initiative

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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 Goes Commercial

Posted on: September 4, 2019 Last updated on: August 23, 2024 Written by: Steve Grimshaw
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Kent on Sunday Article

Posted on: December 12, 2016 Last updated on: November 6, 2020 Written by: Steve Grimshaw
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Inside Kent Sep 2014

Posted on: August 26, 2014 Last updated on: November 4, 2020 Written by: Steve Grimshaw
INSIDE KENT – SEPTEMBER 2014 NO USE EMPTY AIDS CONVERSION OF FORMER SPY BASE INTO NEW HOMES Please click on the picture to read more about the refurbishment of a long term empty building in Folkestone which was once the…
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Kent On Sunday Dec 2013

Posted on: December 16, 2013 Last updated on: August 7, 2024 Written by: Steve Grimshaw
Kent On Sunday – December 2013 NO USE EMPTY Dave Mairs looks at the scheme rejuvenating parts of Kent. In 2005, Kent County Council began No Use Empty (NUE), aimed at getting abandoned and derelict properties back on the housing…
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Kent Messenger – August 2012

Posted on: August 1, 2012 Last updated on: November 4, 2020 Written by: Steve Grimshaw
No Use Empty creating jobs and homes Kent Messenger – Business Section – August 2012 Trevor Sturgess, Business Editor features KCC’s No Use Empty Scheme including interviews with Project Manager and news on the latest injection of funding from the…
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Dover Express – July 2012

Posted on: July 5, 2012 Last updated on: August 7, 2024 Written by: Steve Grimshaw
£175K OF NUE FUNDS HELPS TURN SITE INTO NINE FLATS LOAN SCHEME HELPS TO REJUVENATE OLD HOSTEL Dover Express 5 July 2012 Working in partnership with Dover District Council, KCC’s No Use Empty Scheme has returned 201 Empty Homes back…
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Inside Housing – June 2012

Posted on: June 15, 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 developmet. Please scroll over the front cover to access PDF version of Alex Turner’s…
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KM Business – March 2012

Posted on: March 6, 2012 Last updated on: August 7, 2024 Written by: Steve Grimshaw
‘No Use Empty bucking the national trend’ KM – Kent Business News – March 2012 reports on the continued success of No Use Empty as the scheme returns over 2,000 empty homes back into use Please scroll over the front…
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Investment Now – Nov 2011

Posted on: November 15, 2011 Last updated on: August 7, 2024 Written by: Steve Grimshaw
‘No Use Empty’ recognised at awards Investment Now is the foremost independent monthly journal reporting on economic development and regeneration issues in the UK, profiling local, regional and national success stories Please scroll over the front cover to access PDF…
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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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