Housing Improvement and Adaptations Policy

4.1. This Act is the main legislation relating to Disabled Facilities Grants. The Act details the situations in which the Council must approve an application for a mandatory Disabled Facilities Grant. In addition to this it details the requirements for means testing applicants, approving or refusing applications and gives Local Authorities powers to require grant funding to be repaid upon disposal of the property

4.2. The Regulatory Reform (Housing Assistance) (England and Wales) Order repealed much of the existing legislation governing the provision of grants to homeowners and replaced it with a new wide-ranging power to provide suitable mandatory and discretionary assistance for housing renewal.