A former bakery in St Peter’s, Broadstairs, is being given a fresh lease of life with the help of funding from Kent County Council’s No Use Empty scheme. Local chartered surveyors, Urban Surveying and Design, has used a £50,000 loan…
Could the No Use Empty model be adopted by Scottish councils ?
Trailblazing Scheme Could Help Unlock Scotland’s Empty Homes An innovative scheme proven to bring empty homes back into use by providing interest-free loans to their owners could be adopted by Scottish councils. ‘No Use Empty’ is the brainchild of Kent…
BRISTOL CITY COUNCIL are the first to follow Kent’s Lead On Empty Homes.
It has been announced today that Kent County Council’s pioneering ‘No Use Empty’ scheme, which is now in its 5th Year and has returned 1,627 empty properties across Kent back into use, will be rolled out in Bristol. Bristol City…
£4.1 Million Interest Free Loans To Date
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…