Private Housing Assistance
The Council has a key role in helping elderly, disabled and vulnerable residents to adapt, improve and maintain their homes.
Within Wealden there are three types of assistance that are available:
Mandatory Disabled Facilities Grants
Disabled Facilities Grant are available for the adaptation of properties to enable a disabled person to continue to live there. Adaptations may include improving access to the property, the WC and bathing facilities and providing in certain circumstances additional accommodation for sleeping and bathing.
Decent Homes Assistance
Where a property does not meet the Decent Homes standard, assistance maybe available to owner-occupiers, who are considered vulnerable i.e. either in receipt of an income-related or disability benefit. Applications will be considered for the following works:
- To remedy any Category 1 hazard under the Housing Health and Safety Rating system;
- To bring the property up to a reasonable state of repair;
- To provide reasonably modern facilities and services;
- To provide a reasonable degree of thermal comfort.
Home Repair Assistance
Home Repair Assistance is a discretionary form of assistance which is available for various repairs and improvements for owner-occupiers and tenants (for works which are not the responsibility of the landlord). Priority is given to those people who are over 60 and in receipt of income-related benefit.
Applications will be considered for the following works:
- Repairs to secure the fabric of the building
- Repairs to central heating systems
- Minor adaptations for the disabled.
- Top-up of a Warmfront grant
