Sheerness Times Guardian – July 2013 Sheerness Times Guardian 10 July 2013 Read Lewis Dyson’s report on yet another successful project undertaken with funding from Kent’s ground breaking No Use Empty Scheme featuring comments from the owner and Swale Borough Council Member for Housing, Cllr…
Latest Property Refurbished Now Available To Let
Ferncroft, Kingsdown Spacious, detached, family house in quiet village location but within easy distance of the parade of local shops, school and beach. Newly refurbished this property comprises : Entrance hall, large, dual aspect sitting room with patio doors onto…
Effective Strategies & Interventions
Published March 2013 Compiled by Dr Jill Stewart (j.l.stewart@greenwich.ac.uk) for the CIEH as part as the Private Sector Housing Evidence Base Featuring: Page 24 : Margate’s private rented sector: delivering housing enforcement and family support in a seaside town Jill Stewart, Maureen…
Gravesham’s Empty Property Open Day – 30th April 2013
EMPTY PROPERTY OPEN DAY SURGERY TUESDAY 30 APRIL 2013 9 AM TO 3 PM GRAVESHAM BOROUGH COUNCIL, CIVIC CENTRE Come along to our Empty Property Open Day Surgery and get free impartial advice about how we can help you reuse…
£5million worth of affordable housing opened by residents in Margate!
MUCH NEEDED AFFORDABLE HOUSING WORTH ALMOST £5MILLION WAS OFFICIALLY OPENED IN MARGATE ON FRIDAY (15 FEBRUARY). RESIDENTS OF THE NEW HOMES AT DALBY SQUARE AND ALL SAINTS AVENUE HELPED THE MAYOR OF MARGATE, CLLR WILLIAM SCOBIE CUT THE RIBBON TO…
Jackie Sadek praises No Use Empty
By Jackie Sadek on November 22, 2012 Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg announced £225m of funding to unblock major housing projects “that have hit a wall” in a speech at the NHBC Lunch today. He also reiterated government ambitions for a…
The Guardian features No Use Empty – Sep 2012
Kent’s successful No Use Empty scheme is now targeting derelict hotels, pubs and civic buildings to turn them into habitable homes. Photograph: Alamy In 2005 Kent county council launched its No Use Empty (NUE) scheme,an initiative to tackle the county’s…
NUE and Swale Borough Council’s biggest project announced – Nov 2012
Thanks to an interest-free loan, which has been provided through the No Use Empty (NUE) scheme, construction has started to transform the Victoria Club (VC) in Broadway, Sheerness. Although there have been a number of previous attempts to revamp…
Property Drum September 2012
ARTICLE featuring KCC’s MARK DANCE, CABINET MEMBER for REGENERATION and ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROPERTY DRUM – SEPTEMBER 2012 Empty Homes – One Local Authority is really doing something Please scroll over the image to access PDF version of Sheila Manchester interview…
Triple Housing Success in Swanley
For more than a decade, three adjacent village homes located in Swanley stood empty causing problems for neighbours. However, following intervention from Sevenoaks District Council and No Use Empty the properties have been transformed beyond recognition. As with many long…