Neath Port Talbot Council has backed plans to reduce the number of empty properties in the borough. The £50 million National Empty Properties Scheme is set to run for two years and allows for the owners of empty properties to apply for funding of up £25,000.
Supported by Welsh Government, it is designed to reduce the number of long-term empty and derelict properties in Wales, currently believed to be around 22,000. And Neath Port Talbot Council bosses have now given the green-light to join it.
It is also hoped that the scheme will bring a number of properties back into use as affordable housing, with funds used to help home-owners to remove hazards from their properties to make them safe to live in, and to improve their energy efficiency.
