Stair Lifts


Around 500 disabled home-owners in the Liverpool area are to see their homes drastically improved in order to help them become more mobile and self-reliant within their own houses. A credit-crunch-busting £4million has been set aside for the ambitious and noble cause, with each resident having a maximum budget of £30,000 to change their living space and how they experience their home with such vital additions as stair-lifts, easy-access showers and even changes to the layout or floor plan of the dwelling.

Of the £4million budget, one which might make Colin and Justin positively shriek with joy, £2million is coming from within Liverpool council itself, matching the £2million put up but the Government.  The city just recovering from the hangover of being Capital of Culture is now embarking on a much wider social project of inclusion and accessibility; “we are determined to allow access for all”  Councillor Marilyn Fielding has been quoted as saying, as well as praising the “significant number” of the city’s residents who will benefit from the benevolent scheme.

               

There also seems to be a wider issue at play.  The improvements to the lives of disabled people will, in the words of Councillor Fielding, “help keep neighbourhoods stronger by helping families to remain in their own communities”. Liverpool Council is clearly hoping that, by investing in communities now, they can help keep a sense of solidarity and togetherness in the tough economic times ahead.