Private Sector Housing

There are currently more than 1,000 homes in Medway that have been empty for more than six months. Communities and Local Government (CLG) estimates that in the south-east there are seven empty properties for every homeless family. Medway Council would like to work with the owners of these properties to bring them back into use and provide affordable, decent homes

The council can help by:

• offering Empty Property Improvement Loans to eligible homeowners to bring empty property back into use;
• bringing empty homes back into use;
• tracing the owner of an empty property.

Reporting an empty property to the council

Contact the Empty Property Team on 01634 333532 or via email emptyproperties@medway.gov.uk. You must provide the following details:

• your name;
• your address;
• the address of the empty property;
• for how long the property has been empty.

The Empty Property Team will then go out and investigate it.

Useful links

• Empty Homes Agency (www.emptyhomes.com).
• Kent Empty Property Initiative (www.no-use-empty.co.uk).

Before	Afterwards

Service standards

Find out about Housing Service Standards: Voids (empty properties)

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