Eligibility Criteria
- 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. (The property must have been empty (unoccupied and substantially unfurnished) for a minimum 12-month period at the date of application and qualify as a chargeable empty property. A chargeable empty property is a property that has been empty (unoccupied and substantially unfurnished) for at least 6 months and is listed as a domestic property for council tax purposes. In order to qualify as a Chargeable empty property, a property must have been valued and banded by the Valuation Office Agency and entered on the Council Tax Valuation List. More information is available here. For the purposes of the grant, the property must have been listed as a domestic property for a minimum of 12 months to qualify.)
- The empty home must be located within a participating local authority area, see if the grant is available in your local authority area.
- 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.