Issue - meetings

Disabled Facilities Grants: Child Adaptations (Not Main Residence)

Meeting: 15/02/2006 - Weekly Bulletin (Item 7s)

Discretionary Disabled Facility Grant Policy for Children Residing at Premises that are not their Main Residence


Meeting: 09/02/2006 - Cabinet (Item 24)

Discretionary Disabled Facility Grant Policy for Children Residing at Premises that are not their Main Residence

Decision:

DEFERRED

a decision pending further investigation into whether a more cost-effective solution could be found; and

AGREED

that a further report be brought to Cabinet to consider a policy on grants to the same family for adaptations to more than one dwelling.

 

Minutes:

Cabinet considered the request for a Disabled Facility Grant (DFG) for a dwelling which was not the main residence of the applicant.  Queries were made about the underlying issue of providing two grants for any one family for more than one dwelling and Cabinet

 

DEFERRED

a decision pending further investigation into whether a more cost-effective solution could be found; and

AGREED

that a further report be brought to Cabinet to consider a policy on grants to the same family for adaptations to more than one dwelling.

 

A request was made that floor plans accompany a further report on this specific case.