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What Makes An Accessible Hotel?

Whether the stay is for leisure or business, if accessible features are not present it can make or break the whole experience. But what makes a room truly accessible, and why does it matter when you’re away from your own accessible home?

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Making New Builds Wheelchair-Accessible

New Builds Aren’t Wheelchair-Accessible Today new builds fail to meet the wheelchair-accessible needs of disabled people. When I visited a new build bungalow recently, it showed that new build properties are inaccessible too. We’re currently being failed by property developers and the government due to their failure to push for more wheelchair-accessible properties. Wheelchair-Accessible New […]

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Accessibility Guide for Wheelchair User Guests

Recently In Trend covered some of the ways to make homes more accessible. Reading the article gave some great points on how to make your property more accessible for disabled guests. As to extend on this topic, I’ve based today’s post inspiration on what was discussed and put my take on it when having guests […]

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My Message for Property Developers

Message for Developers… Dear property developers. I am writing this post to give you a message on the need for more accessible housing. Having created this blog to discuss my needs and issues getting on the property market, I want to address those responsible for building properties more directly in hopes to push for action. […]

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Property Hunting Fatigue

Fatigue Sets In From the last couple of updates, I’ve been unsuccessful in finding my perfect home. The property was just too small and didn’t accommodate even my basic accessibility needs. Often properties across the United Kingdom lack accessible design that enables disabled people to live in them independently. Very recently, I’ve felt the disappointment […]

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What Is An Accessible Home?

New Blog Series! Since I started house hunting, I’ve been unable to find an accessible home suitable for my needs. These homes often come with inaccessible features. Even with newer builds, they still come with step access to the property and lack features to allow disabled people to move easily around the property. This post […]

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Why Accessible Properties Are Important

The Accessible Housing Shortage Like many of us, we all want to buy and own a home. We spend countless hours saving and working hard to save up for a deposit to purchase our first time. For many disabled people, finding the perfect accessible home can be extremely difficult to find. To add to the […]

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How To Get Involved With BuildMyAccessibleHome

Campaigning For More Accessible Homes Do you want to get involved in helping more accessible houses built in the UK? Well, fear not as I’ve written a guide on how you can support BuildMyAccessibleHome. The guide will cover a few ways in which you can engage with this website, including suggested ideas and discussion. All […]