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<p>The Open Doors Pilot was announced in the 2018 Budget and seeks to demonstrate
a new way to approach the challenge of vacant commercial properties on high streets
by matching landlords of empty commercial properties across England with community
groups looking for space. <br> <br> We received 30 applications from landlords offering
their properties for use by the deadline of 31 December 2018 and announced the five
locations selected for the pilot in April 2019; these are in Slough, Kettering, Stoke-on-Trent,
Bradford and Rochford. <br> <br> Applications from community groups wishing to use
the spaces are now being accepted on a rolling basis, and we expect to have the first
groups in place later this Summer.</p>
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