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English Housing Survey: adaptations and accessibility report, 2014-15
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Communities and Local Government
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Communities and Local Government
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 32
- Place of publication:
- London
Presents the findings from the 2014-15 English Housing Survey, covering the circumstances of households that had a person/s with a long-term limiting illness or disability that required them to have adaptations in their home, including whether these households had the adaptation they require and the suitability of their home. These findings are provided by tenure (owner occupier, private renter, local authority and housing association) and the age of the person with the long-term limiting disability. The survey report also looks at the accessibility of housing stock by examining the prevalence of nine accessibility features assessed by the English Housing Survey. It compares the prevalence of these accessibility features in homes built before 2001 and from 2001 onwards, when new building regulations started to have an impact. Main findings reported include that approximately 1.9 million households in England had one or more people with a long-term limiting illness or disability that required adaptations to their home, no change from the previous survey carried out in 2011-12. The four most common adaptations that households needed were grab hand rails inside the home, bathing aids, specialist toilet seats, and a shower to replace a bath. Over half of the households that required adaptations in their home already had them installed (55 percent), a slight improvement since 2011-12 (51 percent). Regarding accessibility, less than one in ten homes in England had all four main accessibility features that provide visitability to most people, including wheelchair users (level access to the entrance, a flush threshold, sufficiently wide doorsets and circulation space, and a toilet at entrance level). (Edited publisher abstract)