Parliament Workbench

Petition · PE01554 · Session 4

Improve the provision of disabled-friendly housing

Closed Submitted 23 Jan 2015 Housing & Planning
Signatures
0
131 online signatures with a country
Comments
13
Considered
5 meetings
in the Official Report

What it asks

Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to take action to ensure that all new homes in Scotland are built to fully meet all the Lifetime Homes Standards, with at least 10 per cent of new homes built to full wheelchair accessibility standards.

What the petitioner did first

We have been in touch with MSPs from across the political spectrum. These include Jim Hume, Marco Biagi, Alison Johnstone, Siobhan McMahon, Kezia Dugdale, James Kelly and Sarah Boyack, who lodged a Parliamentary Motion highlighting the concerns around the lack of accessible housing.
We wrote to the Scottish Government Housing Minister about this issue and received a response noting the importance of accessible housing, but which failed to provide a commitment for the government to introduce a national target on the number of disabled-friendly homes and which did not address our specific concerns.

In addition to this, we published a report in 2014 highlighting this issue and have been campaigning on the issue nationally. We presented our report at the Cross-Party Group on Disability and are submitting a petition on this same subject to the National Assembly for Wales.

Where it was considered

Official Report
  1. 31 Mar 2015
    Public Petitions Committee
    New Petitions
    1 mention
  2. 9 Jun 2015
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention
  3. 6 Oct 2015
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention
  4. 8 Dec 2015
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention
  5. 9 Feb 2016
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention

Signatures by country

131 online signatures
  1. Scotland103 78.6%
  2. United Kingdom20 15.3%
  3. Wales4 3.1%
  4. England3 2.3%
  5. United States1 0.8%

Comments

13 comments, oldest first
  1. IRENA PATERSON 5 Feb 2015
    IT IS TIKME THAT DECENT, AFFORDABLE HOUSING WAS AVAILABLE TO PEOPLE WHO ARE DISABLED
    - INSTEAD WE HAVE TO STRUGGLE ON WITH WHAT WE HAVE GOT
  2. lynette mcgregor 11 Feb 2015
    we need this to help us look after our children
  3. paul galvin 11 Feb 2015
    take the time to sign this
  4. Catherine Matheson 11 Feb 2015
    Too much power lies with Occupational Therapists who seem to suggest very few options for house adaptations. Hopefully, more accessible housing will help, but, even if this petition is successful, it won't help those who can't afford to buy a new house as many will still have to remain in unsuitable housing due to high rents for adapted accommodation.
  5. Ellen C Coleman 16 Feb 2015
    It is a disgrace the lack of adapted houses. I wholeheartedly support this petition.
  6. Scott Bamford 18 Feb 2015
    10% accessibility housing should be an absolute minimum when investing in a future ageing population. We need to be building infrastructure now for the future.
  7. Kevin Faulds 18 Feb 2015
    If more people sign, then other people will have to listen...
  8. walter Wells Patterson 19 Feb 2015
    Good Luck with the petition
  9. Ro Bell 20 Feb 2015
    Just do it
    - it is the right thing. This is Scotland, we believe in doing the right thing.
  10. Shirley McHugh 21 Feb 2015
    I know people who have been trapped for over a year in their home because there is no ramp. It's time everyone has access to both the outside world and every room in their house.
  11. Maureen McPeak 24 Feb 2015
    It is vital this petition is successful to enable disabled people to play an active part in their local communities and not be isolated in inaccessible houses or in residential care.
  12. james fender 25 Feb 2015
    I have waited 4years on a house or ground floor property and got refused several times saying not suitable for wheelchair
  13. Ian Gibb 26 Feb 2015
    We used to be excellent with this, my late father was disabled and couldn't even obtain a disabled parking permit! Perhaps they thought he would grow another leg, having left his in Germany back in 1945.