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To: Bromley Council
Make Bromley council provide housing for disabled children.
Provide suitable and adaptable housing for families with disabled children, without a long wait.
Why is this important?
Our family have been on the Bromley housing register, since 19/01/15 and we have been given the highest priority (1) for housing, which should mean a short wait.
We have a severely disabled two and a half year old son, (Teddy) and have been told that it will be a long wait until we can get a house. While we wait, we are sleeping on the living room floor, as he is too big to carry upstairs and the problem is only getting worse as he gets bigger.
The council knows of our situation and has said that they can’t do anything because there are not enough houses for the thousands of people on the list and even less available to those requiring adaptions. They have assessed us as needing a lift, wheelchair access, ramps, a wet room or adapted bath and hoists. In the year and a half we've been on the list, There have only been two suitable adaptable houses made available in Bromley, the last was over a year ago.
This was one of the managers response to our MP who wrote to Bromley council on our behalf:
"I’m afraid the continuing extreme scarcity of such valuable properties (which is an even bigger problem to us than the mismatch between supply and demand for general needs properties) continues to mean that very vulnerable families are suffering a long delay before being able to move from very difficult circumstances."
I don't believe this is acceptable for my family or the many others in the same situation, facing the same insurmountable challenge.
We feel really trapped by the whole situation as everyone we have spoken to has refused or been unable to help in any practical way.
Please sign this petition to support our family and force Bromley council to open their eyes to this neglect.
We have a severely disabled two and a half year old son, (Teddy) and have been told that it will be a long wait until we can get a house. While we wait, we are sleeping on the living room floor, as he is too big to carry upstairs and the problem is only getting worse as he gets bigger.
The council knows of our situation and has said that they can’t do anything because there are not enough houses for the thousands of people on the list and even less available to those requiring adaptions. They have assessed us as needing a lift, wheelchair access, ramps, a wet room or adapted bath and hoists. In the year and a half we've been on the list, There have only been two suitable adaptable houses made available in Bromley, the last was over a year ago.
This was one of the managers response to our MP who wrote to Bromley council on our behalf:
"I’m afraid the continuing extreme scarcity of such valuable properties (which is an even bigger problem to us than the mismatch between supply and demand for general needs properties) continues to mean that very vulnerable families are suffering a long delay before being able to move from very difficult circumstances."
I don't believe this is acceptable for my family or the many others in the same situation, facing the same insurmountable challenge.
We feel really trapped by the whole situation as everyone we have spoken to has refused or been unable to help in any practical way.
Please sign this petition to support our family and force Bromley council to open their eyes to this neglect.
