Eligibility Criteria
- The empty home must be located within a participating local authority area, see if the grant is available in your local authority area.
- The home must currently be registered with the authority’s Council Tax Department as vacant (unoccupied and unfurnished) and have been so for a minimum 12-month period at the date of application.
- Applicants must be owners or prospective owners, who intend to occupy the empty home as their main and only residence, for a minimum 5-year period from the date of the certification of grant aided work. (Grant condition period).
Please note that additional local connection criteria will apply to the following Local Authority areas - Isle of Anglesey, Gwynedd, Ceredigion and Swansea (Gower Ward). Further information on this criteria can be found in the application form.