FOI Request - Accessible Housing

Request 101002397238

1) How many properties/dwellings (sometimes referred to as council or social housing) do you own as a Local Authority?

2) How many of the aforementioned properties/dwellings have wheelchair access?

3) How many of the aforementioned properties/dwellings have been adapted in order to meet the needs of a disabled person?

Response 28-02-2020

Q1 - We have 6150 properties as of 6/2/2020

Q2 – In our 2018/19 annual return we reported our stock by provision type as per the table below.  As at 31 March 2019, our stock figure was 6122.

Property Type            Self-Contained     Percentage
Ambulant Disabled     1912                   31.23%
General Needs           4017                   65.62%
Wheelchair Housing    43                       2.45%
Sheltered Housing       150                     0.70%

We have built 28 new properties this financial year so far and of these 2 are classed as wheelchair housing.

Q3 – As per the table in Q2, all properties in the categories of Ambulant Disabled, Wheelchair Housing and Sheltered Housing have been adapted to meet the needs of a disabled person.

That is a total of 2105 properties.

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