If you have a disability, mobility problems or other impairments, we may be able to help make it easier for you to live independently.

We can install minor adaptations such as:

• adding handrails for support
• lever taps
• fixing shower seats
• banister handrails
• conveniently located electrical sockets and intercoms
• re-hanging of doors

Or you may need major adaptations such as:

• making bathrooms accessible by fitting level-access showers or wet rooms
• installing stairlifts or through floor lifts
• kitchen alterations
• ramps
• widening doors and fitting ramps for disabled access

Adult Social Services or the Child Health and Disability team may also be able to install certain equipment (such as a bath lift) to help you with basic living tasks.

We will need to decide whether the works are reasonable and practical and will consider:

• the structure of the building and whether it makes certain types of changes inappropriate
• how practical it is to make changes to the property such as structural or planning constraints, conservation considerations or locations that limit access
• the impact on other residents which might reduce or limit the existing facilities in the property
• whether it is an exemption to the disabled adaptation policy

Our policy is not to complete adaptations in under or over occupied homes, or properties above ground floor without a passenger lift.

This is not a blanket policy and if there are exceptional circumstances that would prevent a move to a more suitable property, these will be considered.