Housing Needs Assessment in Ludlow
Home visits in Ludlow, Shropshire
This is a specialist service offered where your local occupational therapist's training and scope of practice cover housing assessments - check availability for your area on the county page.
Housing stock in and around Ludlow varies enormously, so a housing needs assessment always starts with the specific property, not a generic standard. Your local occupational therapist visits the Ludlow property in question to assess it properly.
What to expect in Ludlow
- A full walk-through assessment of the property against the person's needs
- Identifying what could be resolved by adaptation versus what genuinely requires a move
- A clear, professional written report suitable for sharing with a housing provider
- Practical next steps agreed with you before the visit ends
Who this helps
- People whose current home no longer suits their needs
- Families considering a move and wanting an independent, professional view
- Housing associations and landlords needing an OT assessment to support a decision
- Anyone preparing evidence for a housing or adaptation funding application
Occupational therapist currently being recruited for this area
We are currently selecting a qualified, HCPC-registered occupational therapist to cover this area. Please check back soon, or contact the office and we can let you know when local appointments become available.
If you, a family member or an organisation needs an independent housing needs assessment for a property in Ludlow, get in touch to check current availability and typical turnaround.
From Whitcliffe and The Linney to the streets around Ludlow town centre and out towards Sandpits Estate, your local occupational therapist comes to you - appointments happen in your own home rather than at a clinic.
Ludlow is a historic market town noted for its medieval castle and timber-framed buildings. Positioned in the Shropshire Hills, it's known for its scenic beauty and culinary reputation, being close to the Welsh border.
Areas around Ludlow covered
- Ludlow town centre
- Whitcliffe
- The Linney
- Sandpits Estate
- Lower Corve Street
- Ludford
- Sheet Village
- Bromfield
- Middleton
- Onibury
- Ashford Bowdler
- Bitterley
- Richards Castle
If your village or part of Ludlow isn't listed, please still get in touch – your local occupational therapist may well be able to travel to you.
If you're just outside Ludlow, get in touch anyway - your local occupational therapist covers the surrounding villages and rural addresses too.
How much does this cost?
Your local occupational therapist confirms their fee before you book - see our prices page for current guide pricing for Housing Needs Assessment and other services.
See PricesFrequently asked questions
Will an occupational therapy report get us a higher medical priority banding?
It cannot. Banding criteria belong to the council or housing association and are applied by them under their own allocation scheme. What a report can do is make sure the people applying those criteria are working from an accurate, specific account of what the person cannot do in that property and why, rather than from a form filled in at speed. That is genuinely worth having, but it is evidence, not an outcome.
Does this replace the assessment the council would carry out?
No. Where a council or housing association requires its own occupational therapy assessment, it will still require it, and an independent report does not stand in for it. What an independent assessment gives you is a clear, written, evidenced view of your own situation that you can use while that process runs, or where the provider accepts external evidence. Ask which applies before you commission anything.
We have been offered a property. Can it be assessed before we accept?
In principle yes, and that is the right moment to look properly. In practice it depends on how long you have been given to respond and whether access to the property can be arranged inside that window, which is usually the limiting factor rather than the assessment itself. If you are on a list and offers are likely, it is worth checking availability before one arrives rather than afterwards.
What if the report concludes our home could be adapted, when we want to move?
That is a real possibility and worth being prepared for. The assessment sets out what it finds, and if the difficulties could be resolved by changes to the building it will say so and describe them. You are still entitled to make your own case to the housing provider, and the report may well help with the adaptation route instead. What cannot happen is a report written the other way round to suit the application.
Who carries out the Housing Needs Assessment visit?
A qualified, HCPC-registered occupational therapist covering Ludlow carries out the assessment and any follow-up visits in person, at your home.
How is Housing Needs Assessment priced?
Your occupational therapist confirms their fee for Housing Needs Assessment before you book - see our prices page for current guide pricing.
Will I get anything in writing?
Where relevant, you'll receive a written summary or report of the visit, agreed with you at the outset - particularly for equipment recommendations, adaptations or reports for a third party.
What happens after the first visit?
Your occupational therapist will agree next steps with you directly - this might be a follow-up visit, a set of recommendations to action yourself, or referral on if something falls outside their scope.