Disabled Aids and Adaptations to your home

What are aids and adaptations?  

Age, illness, or disability can make daily tasks difficult. If you're a South Holland District Council tenant, we may be able to help by making adaptations to your home

We can install a range of home aids or adaptations to help you live more independently or improve your standard of living. These include:

Minor adaptations

• Grab rails usually near a bath or toilet
• Handrails - to make stairs and steps safer
• Lever taps - to make it easier to turn taps on and off
• Alert devices - installing or updating alert devices to improve safety (eg fire alarms, smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors)
• Visibility improvements - changing the type of lighting, upgrading home access, or improving heating or surface finishes.

We aim to complete minor adaptations within 28 days of receiving the necessary referral.

Major adaptations

• Stair lifts
• Hoists
• Level-access showers
• Complex ramping

Where major adaptations are required, we will consider whether we have other properties that would be more suited to your needs.  We might decide that your best option would be moving to a new home. If that's the case, we'll let you know and support you through the process.

How can I have aids and adaptations installed?

Requests for adaptations must be referred to

•  Adult Social Care or call them on 01522 782155.
• Children with disabilities occupational therapy team or call them on 01522 782111

What happens next?  

Once agreed, minor adaptations are passed straight to our contractor for works to be completed.

For major adaptations, the following process will apply:

• SHDC receives your Occupational Therapist recommendation. 
• SHDC will review the proposed works to determine if these works are possible at your existing property.
• A joint visit with SHDC, the occupational therapy team and our External contractor may be required.
• Approved adaptations will be forwarded to a relevant contractor for a survey to be completed on your home.
• Plans are submitted for the works and forwarded to our Planning/Building Control Department if permission is required.
• When plans are agreed by SHDC, Occupational Therapy team and yourself, contractors are appointed and dates will be confirmed as to when works can commence.  The timescale for completing the work depends on the type of works required.  Once installed, we will maintain, repair and service all approved adaptations for you.

If you have any questions or queries on the process, please contact the Aids and Adaptations team on adaptations@sholland.gov.uk

Please note, this service area is currently under review and this webpage will be updated to reflect any changes made to the service.