Disabled Facilities Grants are available to help fund the cost of aids and adaptations to enable a disabled person to live independently in their own home and support the provision of decent, healthy, and safe housing within the Borough.
We provide grants up to £30,000 to help to provide suitable facilities and adaptations.
Approval for the grant must be given before starting work.
Eligibility
Anyone who is registered disabled, or eligible for registration as a disabled person.
Some works, not all, are subject to a means test. The scheme is similar to the Housing Benefit's means test, but some benefit payments can be disregarded.
Eligible work
- Providing wet rooms and adapted toilets.
- Helping access around the home eg widening doors, stairlifts and through floor lifts.
- Work to help access to homes and gardens eg ramps.
- Making a dwelling safe as the disabled client has behavioural problems.
- Kitchen adaptations for access and wheelchair users.
- Improving access around the home to help disabled occupants to care for others.
Applying for a grant
Applicants should first arrange for an assessment by an Occupational Therapist. These can be contacted via adult social care. There is usually a wait for these assessments. Until an OT has confirmed your eligibility the DFG team cannot assist you.
Your local adult social care team are: Spelthorne Locality Team, Ashford Centre, Stanwell Road, Ashford, Middlesex, TW15 3DU Tel: 01932 795292.
For more information on DFG’s please contact:
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Property projects, A2Dominion, Spelthorne House, Thames Street, Staines-upon-Thames, Surrey, TW18 4TA
Telephone: 0800 432 0077.Email: propertyprojects@a2dominion.co.uk (for A2D tenants only)
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Disabled Facilities Grants Team, Council Offices, Knowle Green, Staines-upon-Thames, Surrey, TW18 1XB
Telephone: 01784 448607.Email: dfg@spelthorne.gov.uk (For all other borough residents)
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