A disabled mum from Midlothian say she has to crawl through ice in winter to get to her front door because the parking space is so far away from her home. The mum-of-one also told how she has to rely on her husband to carry her up the stairs, cook, clean and help her have a bath due to an inaccessible home which has "stolen her dignity".
Rebecca Kelly, 34, who lives in Loanhead, is in a house she cannot move around in yet her efforts to buy a suitable home through a Scottish Government scheme have been frustrated. The chemistry teacher says the help to buy scheme is discriminatory to disabled people as it enacts price caps which means potential buyers cannot put in offers above the home report value. She says that makes buying in Edinburgh and Midlothian "impossible" because of the competitive housing market.
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