Moving Home

If you own your own home or you are renting a home which is not suitable you will need to move house. Selling up or looking for a new home to rent can be quite a traumatic experience if you are in hospital and you may feel isolated and insecure about the future. Selling a property can take up to six months which may not be practical if you are ready to be discharged from hospital. It may also be difficult to maintain your mortgage payments if you’re earning capacity have been reduced.

It is worth asking for help from friend and family and from social services to help you resolve this dilemma. Even if you need a short-term solution while you sell your property for a more suitable one or while you look for new accommodation of your own.

If you are planning to move it is worth spending some time thinking about what type of housing would be suitable for your needs. You may want to consider purpose-built housing, or building your own home.

The Regulatory Reform (Housing Assistance) (England and Wales) Order 2002 gives councils greater powers to provide discretionary assistance. This Order also enables councils to provide other sorts of assistance, for example helping someone move to more suitable living accommodation if it is satisfied that this would provide a similar benefit to improving or adapting the existing accommodation.