We provide Disabled Facilities Grants with the assistance of Kent County Council’s Occupational Therapy (OT) Service and ‘Peabody’, the East Kent Dover Home Improvement Agency.

The grant is open to all residents within the district. A grant is available to anyone with a physical, mental or sensory disability and can be used to adapt your home so that you or a family member can live more independently.

During the application process, and if a grant is given, you will receive help from a number of organisations:
- an Occupational Therapist will help you to determine the best adaptation and equipment
- the East Kent Home Improvement Agency can provide technical assistance, managing the contractors and workmen
- we will provide and manage the funding

Even if you think that your income is to high, please call us as we may be able to help with one of our other grants.

The maximum grant available is £30,000 minus any personal contribution, for those works considered eligible.  Please note that other grants are available, you may be able to obtain the other grants

We may place a charge on the adapted property of owner occupiers where the grant exceeds £5,000. The charge is limited to a maximum of £10,000 and will only be effective if the property is sold within five years from completion of the works.  The charge is discretionary and will be determined on a ‘case-by-case basis’ reflecting the ‘individual circumstances of each applicant’ at the time of sale with issues of hardship etc taken into account, repayment of the grant.

To apply you must be either the owner of a home or the tenant.  There is no restriction on the type of tenancy but we will need to contact the landlord and seek their permission for the work to be carried out. The landlord can also apply on your behalf. In order to protect public funds the landlord will be asked to sign a certificate.

If you are a Dover Housing tenant you are still eligible for a Disabled Facilities Grant but this work is normally funded through our Adaptations Officer, tel: 01304 821199.

For more information about the grant contact the Private Sector Housing Team on 01304 872 397.

If you wish to make an application you should first contact Kent County Council’s Occupational Therapy Service on 03000 41 61 61.

If you are an owner/occupier a Relocation Grant  my be available to help you move to a more suitable property. 

Contact Private Sector Housing
Tel: 01304 872 397
Email: privatesectorhousing@dover.gov.uk