AQW 1254/17-22

Ms Paula Bradshaw
Alliance Party
South Belfast

Tabled Date: 30/01/2020
Answered On Date: 22/02/2020
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister for Communities for her assessment of current provision of one-bedroom, wheelchair-accessible residential accommodation in the Belfast South constituency.

Answer:

The Housing Executive has advised that there is currently only one, one-bedroom partially wheelchair accessible social home on the Accessible Housing Register, within the Belfast South Parliamentary Constituency. There are however a further five one-bedroom wheelchair accessible units to be added to the Register in May 2020.

You may also wish to note that there are a further 43 fully wheelchair accessible and 115 partially wheelchair accessible properties currently in the constituency

There are 338 social housing units programmed to start in Belfast South constituency through the Social Housing Development Programme (SHDP) 2019/20 – 2021/22. A number of these schemes will include the provision of wheelchair accessible units; however, the agreed housing mix for some of these schemes has yet to be finalised.