Healthy homes grant
The Healthy Homes Grant is available to help people with long-term health conditions or disabilities to carry out necessary repairs to their home.
To be eligible, the person who the grant will help (the vulnerable person) must be:
- Vulnerable due to a disability or long-term health condition; and
- Referred to the grant scheme by their GP or a Health Practitioner; and
- In receipt of (or eligible for) a means-tested benefit.
The grant is also subject to the following conditions:
- The maximum grant is £5,000.
- Works are restricted to repairs or improvements directly linked to improving or alleviating the health condition.
- The occupant with the health condition must continue to live at the grant improved property for 3 years following completion of the work, otherwise the whole of the grant is repayable to the Council (except in the event of the death of the qualifying occupant).
For further information on this grant or to apply: download the supporting documents or contact us.