Wheelchair Accessible Housing Target: Guidance Note

This note contains guidance for Scottish local authorities on the setting of Local Housing Strategy (LHS) targets to support the delivery of more Wheelchair Accessible housing.

There is currently no universally agreed housing standard to define housing for wheelchair users to live in. Often terms such as Wheelchair Accessibility or Wheelchair Liveability are used to refer to properties that are suitable for wheelchair users to live in and to distinguish them from properties that may be accessible for wheelchair users to visit and / or capable of being adapted for wheelchair users.

This guidance makes clear that the provision of targets to support the delivery of Wheelchair Accessible homes across all tenures means homes suitable for wheelchair users to live in.