Housing adaptations

Age, illness, or disability can make daily tasks difficult. If you’re a council tenant, we may be able to help by providing equipment or adapting your home to meet your needs. We can provide minor adaptations or equipment to make your day-to-day life easier or assess you in your home to see if major adaptations would help you.

In both cases, you can apply yourself or someone can apply for you. We’ll normally only agree to adapt a home if the person who needs the adaptations is the tenant, their partner, or a member of their family who lives in the home permanently. This person must find it difficult to live in the home because of its facilities. We don’t carry out adaptations if you’ve applied to buy your home under the Right to Buy scheme.

Minor adaptations

Minor adaptations include things like:

• a second stair rail
• a metal hand rail
• grab rails
• a lever tap

Major adaptations

Major adaptations include things like:

• a stair lift or hoist
• a level-access shower
• a ramp

We may want to visit you at your home and will contact you to make an appointment for an assessment. An occupational therapist or an equipment and adaptations officer will assess your health and mobility. There’s a very high demand for an assessment, so the team is unable to see everyone straight away. They see people who have the greatest risk to their health, safety, and independence first.

They might give you advice about:

• easier or safer ways of carrying out everyday tasks
• specialist equipment that can be provided
• making adaptations or alterations to your home
• whether moving home might be the best option for you

Contact us if you require adaptations to your home