Help to bring your home up to tolerable standard

If your home does not meet the Scottish Government’s tolerable standard, you may be able to get advice and a grant to help with the cost of improvements. We can support you when there is a serious issue that affects your health, safety or access to basic facilities.

What support you can get

Environmental Health Services can: 

• give you advice on what the tolerable standard requires
• assess your home to see if it falls below the standard
• offer a grant to help with improvement work

If you qualify, you can get:

• 25 percent off work costing up to £5,000
• 35 percent off work costing more than £5,000

You must pay the remaining cost yourself.

When you may qualify

You may get a grant if an independent report or our inspection shows that your home has one or more of the following issues:

• risk of collapse because the structure is unstable
• unsafe or inadequate drinking water supply
• no internal toilet, and you need one installed for the first time
• problems with foul drainage, including upgrading a cesspool
• significant rising damp inside the home that means it does not meet the tolerable standard

When we cannot help

We cannot offer a grant if:

• this is not your only or main home
• you have lived in the property for less than two years
• you bought the home knowing it needed major work to develop it
• you removed standard facilities yourself
• the property is used for commercial purposes