Social housing oven rules

clare_1

Hello all 

I wondered if someone could help me please, with social housing rules on supplying an oven.
I have been looking online it is saying...
 if you rent a property it must be fitted, This is fairly new, it came in with the Fitness for Human Habitation Act 2018 which came into force March 2019. It modifies Section 10 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 and says "facilities for preparation and cooking of food" must be provided.

Is this the same case to social housing?
Because we are meant to be viewing a property and signing same day and we have just been told it doesn't come with a cooker.

Very confused with different information 
Any help I would much appreciate it, thank you in advance 

Rosie_Scope

Hi @clare_1, just popping in to let you know that I've moved your post over to our housing section so people can find it more easily. Hopefully some of our members with experience of this will be along shortly to offer some advice.

I'll also do some research to see what I can come up with. Hope you get it sorted soon

clare_1

Thank you

poppy123456

Unfortunately, this doesn’t apply to social housing. That only applies to privately rented properties.

Im currently on the urgent priority list for an adapted property with social housing and I will have to buy my own cooker. 

You can apply for help through the Household Support Fund from your local Authority, for help with a cooker. See link. https://www.gov.uk/cost-living-help-local-council

clare_1

Thank you so much for this information.
We have been waiting 6 years and don't really want to turn it down, we just wanted yo know the rules.
Thank you for the form, I will look into this.
I am very grateful.
I hope you don't have to wait as long as we have 

poppy123456

Blimey that’s a long time to wait. Hopefully for myself because it’s urgent medical priority I won’t be waiting too long. 

Good luck with the move and I hope you’re very happy in your new home. 

Kimmy87

Congratulations on your offer of social housing. 

I waited 13 months (moderate medical need, required ground floor + wet room), a neighbour who moved into an identical flat next door recently also waited 6 years. It really does vary so much even within the same local authority. 

clare_1

Yes alot of things going wrong while on the list.
Sending us properties for over 55's, Sending us properties more bedrooms than needed and so on.
I think it depends also on what council you are with, aswell as health.

Thank you so much poppy for your kind words.
Sending you positive vibes your way and fingers crossed for a quick move.
All the best

clare_1

Thank you kimmy.
I had all the same needs you and they kept sending me 1st floors with no lift, aswell as previously stated. When I bid on ground floor like I was meant to, I wouldn't get nowhere. I mentioned it and they said ground floor go to older people. Had a terrible time on the list, hence 6 years waiting.
But the main thing is we have now had our first offer.

Pleased you didn't have to wait long and are now settled.
I just feel for everyone on the waiting list.

Crazyone

poppy123456 said:

Blimey that’s a long time to wait. Hopefully for myself because it’s urgent medical priority I won’t be waiting too long. 

Good luck with the move and I hope you’re very happy in your new home. 

Urgent priority need here too from January this year...it appears to stand for nothing in this area. The real problem is that if there are no properties and thinking out of the box to find solutions are rejected, then being rehomed is a waiting game for either someone to move on/pass away or for a house builder to build an estate and have to offer a proportion as social housing. If that happens and you are very lucky, they might just have provision for a property that fits your profile, as one housing official said to me "We can't just magic properties out of thin air"

I need to have a wheelchair adapted, ground floor/one floor and wet room and specialised toilet combo, I'm currently in an unadaptable semi detached house where I am trapped upstairs as that is where the toilet is.

poppy123456

Crazyone said:

poppy123456 said:

Blimey that’s a long time to wait. Hopefully for myself because it’s urgent medical priority I won’t be waiting too long. 

Good luck with the move and I hope you’re very happy in your new home. 

Urgent priority need here too from January this year...it appears to stand for nothing in this area. The real problem is that if there are no properties and thinking out of the box to find solutions are rejected, then being rehomed is a waiting game for either someone to move on/pass away or for a house builder to build an estate and have to offer a proportion as social housing. If that happens and you are very lucky, they might just have provision for a property that fits your profile, as one housing official said to me "We can't just magic properties out of thin air"

I need to have a wheelchair adapted, ground floor/one floor and wet room and specialised toilet combo, I'm currently in an unadaptable semi detached house where I am trapped upstairs as that is where the toilet is.

There's been a lot of people in the same catagory as me in the past few weeks that have been offered an adapted property and been on the urgent priority list since June/July 2023. It was mid August that i was given this so there's hope for me.

One annoying part for me is that they don't show what place you were on the bidding list. Bids ended for last week at midnight on Monday and a property i bid on only had 24 successful bids, that's very low in comparison to some that have 150+ bids. Another annoying part is that they're not fast in offering the properties. I bid on one that ended on 6th November and still no offers made.

Crazyone

poppy123456 said:

Crazyone said:

poppy123456 said:

Blimey that’s a long time to wait. Hopefully for myself because it’s urgent medical priority I won’t be waiting too long. 

Good luck with the move and I hope you’re very happy in your new home. 

Urgent priority need here too from January this year...it appears to stand for nothing in this area. The real problem is that if there are no properties and thinking out of the box to find solutions are rejected, then being rehomed is a waiting game for either someone to move on/pass away or for a house builder to build an estate and have to offer a proportion as social housing. If that happens and you are very lucky, they might just have provision for a property that fits your profile, as one housing official said to me "We can't just magic properties out of thin air"

I need to have a wheelchair adapted, ground floor/one floor and wet room and specialised toilet combo, I'm currently in an unadaptable semi detached house where I am trapped upstairs as that is where the toilet is.

There's been a lot of people in the same catagory as me in the past few weeks that have been offered an adapted property and been on the urgent priority list since June/July 2023. It was mid August that i was given this so there's hope for me.

One annoying part for me is that they don't show what place you were on the bidding list. Bids ended for last week at midnight on Monday and a property i bid on only had 24 successful bids, that's very low in comparison to some that have 150+ bids. Another annoying part is that they're not fast in offering the properties. I bid on one that ended on 6th November and still no offers made.

I think it is very much area dependent, around here there are very few adapted or adaptable properties available or being built. The son of a friend of mine waited for 5 years for an adapted property for their severely disabled and wheelchair bound child.

I was offered a property back in July by an out of the box thinking housing officer, I was absolutely over the moon but then it was passed onto a non out of the box thinking person and it all fell to pieces and the offer was rescinded (new build, wheelchair adaptable but a house rather than a bungalow or flat - the out of the box thinking came from putting in a stair lift and/or making the lounge my bedroom as there were downstairs wash and toileting facilities)

I'm not sure what is best, ours does show your position on the bidding list but it doesn't help if you are listed as 1st or 2nd and then the bid is passed over as they decide the property is not suitable or section 106 applies which just leads to disappointment and stress. I think the S106 thing annoys me the most, you are encouraged to widen your search area to improve your chances and when you do, especially for adapted properties, you still fail as S106 applies.

Ours are pretty quick at making offers, the list closes at 23.59 on a Wednesday, the house that was offered and rescinded was offered on the Friday lunchtime and all those that I have been passed over on, have had the decision made by the weekend.

I've pretty much given up hope now, I used to look forward to the new list going up, be exited about it but I have lost all optimism and hope now.