FOI request (FOIR-741660541)

Wheelchair Accessible Housing

Requested Mon 18 August 2025
Responded Thu 28 August 2025

1. How many households are currently waiting for wheelchair accessible social housing?

2. How many wheelchair accessible homes are there in the existing social housing stock, occupied or otherwise?

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Response

1. Households currently waiting for wheelchair accessible housing:

Mobility level 1 = 25

Mobility level 2 = 30

Mobility level 3 = 336

Where a property is advertised for applicants with restricted mobility (that is Mobility Level 1, 2, or 3), priority will be given to applicants who require this type of property.

Mobility Level 1 – Typically suitable for a person who uses a wheelchair full time, indoors and outdoors. The property will provide full wheelchair access throughout.

Mobility Level 2 – Typically suitable to a person with restricted walking ability and for those that may need to use a wheelchair for some of the time. The property will have internal and external level or ramped access, but some parts of the property may not be fully wheelchair accessible.

Mobility Level 3 – Typically suitable for a person able to manage two or three steps, but unable to manage steep gradients. The property may have adaptations to assist people with limited mobility.

2. Most of the social housing in the borough is owned and managed by Private Registered Providers, the 2 biggest of which are Southern Housing and Orbit. Please contact them directly to obtain the information.

We can provide the number of lets via the housing register into social housing for 2024/2025 and from 1st April 2025.

2024/2025:

Mobility level 1 = 1

Mobility level 2 = 0

Mobility level 3 = 15

From 1st April 2025:

Mobility level 1 = 0

Mobility level 2 = 0

Mobility level 3 = 2

We also have a very small portfolio of council-owned social housing, but these are all used for temporary accommodation, of which we have 2 wheelchair accessible properties.