No Use Empty, the UK’s most successful empty homes initiative, sees £300,000 pledge from Dover District Council- Award winning empty homes scheme, No Use Empty (NUE), has received a commitment of £300,000 from Dover District Council to provide top-up loans…
Tunbridge Wells Borough Council Pledges £100k to Empty Homes Scheme
Tunbridge Wells Borough Council pledges £100,000 to No Use Empty Award winning empty homes scheme, No Use Empty (NUE), has received a commitment of £100,000 from Tunbridge Wells Borough Council to provide top-up loans to help bring long-term empties back…
NUE celebrating National Empty Homes Week
National Empty Homes Week 2017 National Empty Homes Week will take place from Monday 16th October to 22nd October. Every year local authorities, housing providers, community-led organisations and others see Empty Homes Week as an opportunity to organise events and put…
A new home in Wingham
With the assistance from a NUE loan this project has recently been completed in the village of Wingham. The owner has restored this circa 18th century mid terrace home to include many of the original features and has been renovated…
Newly converted Kent Cottage in Hythe
Luxury available in old Hythe Cottage A development formerly called ‘Kent Cottage’ in Hythe has recently been completed. Planning permission was granted to turn the dilapidated property into a new development that would replace the old building and would be in…
Thanet Owner Occupiers Loans
First Loan Approved The first successful applicant from Trinity Square, Margate has taken the opportunity to renovate an empty property into a home with the assistance from the new Thanet Owner Occupier loan scheme. This loan scheme providing home-owners with…
Former British Volunteer Pub, Ashford now completed
Former British Volunteer Pub, Ashford History The original pub was converted by the army in the 1860s from two old cottages which stood alongside barracks after several licensees in the town refused to serve troublesome soldiers. Like so many once…
Shepway NUE Top Up Loans – Scoop National Innovation Award
Shepway No Use Empty Plus Scoops National Innovation Award Shepway District Council (SDC) were presented with the Innovation Award at this year’s national Empty Homes Conference held in Birmingham organised by the Empty Homes Network. Iain Cobby, Private Sector Housing…
NUE Announce Thanet Owner Occupier Scheme
Thanet District Council – Owner Occupier Loan Scheme Thanet District Council will be the first council in Kent to provide loans for home-owners looking to renovate and then move into former empty properties. Secured loans of up to £20,000 will be…
NUE – Gravesham Success
Gravesham Borough Council – “Empty property scheme hailed a success” Edwin Street, Gravesend A GRAVESHAM property is proving to be another success story of Kent County Council’s No Use Empty (NUE) Scheme. NUE loaned property owner Mrs Devinder Dhami £25k to get…