Land Charges for DFG: Applying to owner-occupiers only

Disabled Facilities Grants are provided to support people for the long-term: if you intend to move, we can support you with a grant to adapt your new home. You may have to repay part of the grant, if the home is sold within ten years of the adaptation being completed. This also applies if the legal title to the property is transferred without a sale, e.g. through a transfer of ownership such as assignment or inheritance.

To ensure the Council can reclaim such grants, we will register a Land Charge against properties where a Mandatory DFG of £5,000 or more has been approved. The amount of the land charge is the amount of grant over £5,000, up to a maximum of £10,000 (for a mandatory DFG of £15,000 or more). If the property is sold, inherited or otherwise transferred within ten years of completion of works, the land charge must be repaid to the Council.

The Council may choose to reduce or waive the repayment, if the property is sold to enable the person for whom adaptations were completed to move to a more suitable home, or if reclaiming the debt would cause exceptional hardship.

Land charges are not registered on rented properties.