Private Sector Housing Team
Breckland Council’s Private Sector Housing Team can offer advice and assistance on a range of grants, loans and discount schemes.
For further information, click on the links below:
For further details contact the Private Sector Housing Team:
Telephone
01362 656870
or
email: privatesectorhousing@breckland.gov.uk
Disabled Facilities Grants
If you, or someone who is living with you, is disabled, a Disabled Facilities Grant can help you to adapt your home to allow the disabled person to continue living there.
The grant is limited to a maximum of £25,000 and is subject to several conditions:
- To qualify the person must be registered disabled or be eligible to be registered
- The house must be the disabled person’s only or main residence
- The disabled person’s income will be assessed to establish what contribution they may have to make towards the cost of the work. Applicants claiming certain benefits, and parents of a disabled child, would not have to pay a contribution
Occupants of dwellings and permanent residential caravans/mobile homes are eligible to apply for a Disabled Facilities Grant.
The grant must be used to make adaptations to the home that the disabled person lives in. Owner occupiers, tenants or landlords can apply. Adaptation works must not have been carried out before application for the the grant is made.
An Occupational Therapist (OT) from Social Services will normally be involved to make an assessment of the person’s needs. The OT will make a recommendation to Breckland Council’s Private Sector Housing Team about what adaptations are needed. Information may also be provided by your GP (doctor), consultant or specialist practitioner.
You can also get help with the process of applying for a grant by contacting Care & Repair West Norfolk, the Home Improvement Agency which covers the Breckland district. The Home Improvement Agency is a not-for-profit organisation which helps vulnerable home owners and private rented tenants to repair, improve maintain or adapt their homes.
For the above information and more, see the below downloadable leaflet
Leaflet ‘a guide to disabled facilities grants’
Full contact details for Care & Repair (West Norfolk):
King’s Court,
Chapel Street
King’s Lynn
Norfolk
PE30 1EX.
Telephone
01553 616677
Minicom:
01553 616705
Fax:
01553 768999
E-mail:
careandrepair@west-norfolk.gov.uk
Web site:
www.careandrepair-wn.org
Our Useful Contacts section contains further sources of advice and support.
If you are a tenant of Peddars Way Housing Association, contact Flagship Housing. For full contact details of Peddars Way Housing Association and Flagship Housing see our Useful Contacts section.
There is a free booklet about Disabled Facilities Grants produced by the department for Communities & Local Government (CLG). For further information go to their website at www.communities.gov.uk
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Energy Efficiency grants and discount schemes
Norfolk HEAT Project
The Norfolk HEAT Project is a partnership of all Norfolk local authorities and the energy providers. HEAT provides low cost insulation packages. This is a discount scheme and the price you will pay will vary with the type of property.
For a typical 3 bedroom semi-detached house prices example prices are for loft insulation you would have to pay between £219 and £269, and for cavity wall insulation between £279 and £309 both after the application of the grant. If you are in receipt of an appropriate benefit the insulation is free.
If you are interested in finding out more call the HEAT Project on 0800 093 4050, or visit their website at www.heatproject.co.uk
Warm Front
Warm Front is a government funded scheme, which provides a grant of up to £2,700, to make your home warmer, healthier and more energy efficient by providing insulation and possibly heating measures, ( the grant may be up to £4000 for an oil system installation ).
Grants available to households where someone is in receipt of an income or disability related benefit, where you are pregnant or have a child under the age of 16 and you receive a benefit or where you are over 60 and you receive a benefit. Entitlement does change from time to time so you should contact Warm Front direct for the latest position.
For further information contact the Warm Front team on freephone 0800 316 2814 or visit their website at www.warmfront.co.uk
Norfolk Warmer Walls
This is designed for properties that have solid walls and therefore cannot benefit from cavity wall insulation but can also be used for Mansard roofs, dormer walls and ceilings and mobile homes. All necessary materials are available at a discounted price and you simply order as much as you need. Fitting can be done on a reasonably skilled DIY basis or you can get a specialist contractor to carry out the work. Material costs (inc VAT) for a typical 3 bedroom terraced house would be £772.
If you want further information please contact Mould Growth Consultants on 020 8337 0731 or email info@mgcltd.co.uk
Low Carbon Buildings Programme
This scheme provides grants and access to sources of advice regarding renewable energy. Householders, public, not-for-profit and community organisations can all obtain grants. The funding availability for this Government backed scheme is released in blocks and you must check on their website for current availability.
Grants are given for the following renewable energy installations:
- Solar thermal
- Wind turbines
- Micro/small scale hydro turbines
- Ground source heat pumps
- Room heaters/stoves with automated wood pellet feed
- Wood fuelled boiler systems
For more information visit : www.lowcarbonbuildings.org.uk
For the above information and more, see the below downloadable leaflet
Leaflet ‘a guide to energy efficiency
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Renovating and repairing properties
Breckland has three housing renewal schemes currently in operation:
- Safeguard - A free inspection service to help you look after your home. To download a free leaflet explaining the scheme, click here
- Domicile - Financial assistance to help bring back into use long-term empty dwellings or to convert unused commercial properties into dwellings. To download a free leaflet explaining the scheme, click here
- Enhance - Financial assistance to help you repair or improve your home and make it more safe, secure and energy efficient. To download a free leaflet explaing the scheme, click here
For further information contact the Pirvate Sector Housing Team on 01362 656870
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