Funding to Address Scarborough Borough’s Lack of Specially Adapted Homes for People with Visual Impairment – This is the Coast

In the whole of the Scarborough Borough there is just one house which has been specially adapted for people with visual impairments, despite there being around 5,000 visually impaired residents in the borough.

Yorkshire Coast Sight Support is to receive up to £80,000 of council funding to help address the lack of accessible housing available to visually impaired people in the Scarborough borough.

The charity will provide matched funding and aims to buy and adapt a property to the required standards.

Read more at: https://www.thisisthecoast.co.uk/news/local-news/funding-to-address-scarborough-boroughs-lack-of-specially-adapted-homes-for-people-with-visual-impairment/