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Ready to move but how to get an accessible home?

My home does not suit my needs now and I am looking to move to Lewisham in London closer to work but found no suitable accessible home or flat. Where is the best place to find an accessible home?
Thanks,
Peter pan
Thanks,
Peter pan
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It's hard to find accessible housing anywhere
You could contact shelter while may have some advice
But the access thing is of course a problem because almost no U.K. housing stock is built that way, and even the supposedly enforced percentages of developments are easily not built, when developers have a get out clause of saying it won't be economically viable after all, or it won't be a practical possibility, after all.
That's why I hoped all charities and some journalists would leap on the Public Consultation which closed today, and ask for it to be law that NO new build should be impossible for disabled people to live in.
Moving can be a challenging task, and finding accessible housing is very difficult unfortunately.
You might find this page on our website useful, about finding suitable accommodation andmoving.
What sort of home are you looking for? What would it need to have, or not have?
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Lewisham sounds great with Lewisham College. Is there such thing as Peter Pan's Pool? Will search for it.
I am interested to find out more about the Public Consultation. What is it?
Thank you.
The pool called Peter Pans Pool had a miniature fun fair for years, generations in fact. That's why all locals and older people still call it Peter Pan's. Homebase did away with the fair, for a car park. It will probably officially just be called Homebase now, and it is known nowadays more for the fibre glass couple on a bench.
Will you be working or learning at the college? A little way further is Goldsmiths College. Further beyond that is Peckham then Camberwell Art College. A lot goes on in South (used to be pronounced Saahf ) London, but North of the river is a foreign land. The strange people who live there always looked down their noses. At one time, in the last century, there even had to be an Amending Act of Parliament to instruct the Carriage Office to order black cab drivers to accept fares to cross the river, they were so reluctant!.