Social Housing and Intermediate Rent - Lifetime Homes Standards

The Department for Communities' (DfC's) Housing Association Guide (HAG) and Homes for Intermediate Rent Design Standards require all new social rented housing and Subsidised Intermediate Rent (SIR) housing to meet full Lifetime Homes standards (plus additional criteria), as well as providing fully wheelchair accessible homes where required. Therefore, any grant funded social housing or SIR housing will always meet the Policy HOU7 standards with regards to Lifetime Homes criteria. Similarly, where any specialist wheelchair housing is delivered as part of the social housing programme or SIR housing scheme, this will meet the wheelchair adaptable criteria of Policy HOU7.