The claimant appealed against rejection of his application for a grant in respect of works in his home for safety purposes. His son suffered a personality disorder resulting in aggressive behaviour. He sought a grant for the cost of creating separate bedrooms for the protection of the sibling.
Held: The grants are mandatory, but could not be used to provide for the safety not of the person suffering disability, but of another member of the family. The authority had correctly considered the issues before it, and it had accepted that a separate bedroom would be of benefit to the disturbed son’s own behavioural problems, but that did not go to his own safety.
Stanley Burnton, J
[2003] EWHC 1832 (Admin), Times 11-Sep-2003, Gazette 26-Feb-2004
Bailii
Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 23
Benefits, Housing
Updated: 13 January 2022; Ref: scu.184842