Guarantee 7
If you choose to stay living on your estate and if you require adaptations because you have a disability (or a member of your household has) you will be able to have these adaptions made to your new home.
- Where possible, the council will ensure that aids and adaptations that you may require will be carried out before you move into your new home. Any necessary adaptations will be carried out in consultation with you and relevant professionals
- An occupational therapist assessment will be required to identify what aids and adaptations should be provided in your new home and these will be carried out without any charge to you. Wherever possible, these will be carried out before you move into your new home. This only applies if you are remaining on the estate and moving into a newly built leasehold or shared ownership property
- The council will work with you to explore the best housing solution for you, which will include consideration of supported living options like extra care or sheltered housing
The council will carry out a medical assessment to determine what aids and adaptation you would require. Where this medical assessment shows that you will need aids and adaptations to your new home, then they will be built in and paid for by Homes for Lambeth. This will not come out of your home loss payment.
The council defines vulnerability as those whose ability to live independently is at risk due to an array of circumstances and needs. This includes residents who require additional care and support services both in general needs and specialist housing, regardless of age. Vulnerability is not necessarily permanent; people’s needs change over time. The Key Guarantees embed within them commitments to ensure that those with disabilities and special needs are given the extra help that they require enabling them to move home. In progressing estate regeneration projects, the Housing Regeneration team will abide by the council’s approach to equalities, which are embedded in the Lambeth Borough Plan. The Housing Regeneration Team will ensure that housing needs assessments will be carried out for all affected households and the council’s equalities duties will be embedded in all decision making throughout an estate regeneration project. Equality Impacts Assessments will be assessed at key stages.