Mr Millen also struggles inside the flat as his kitchen is not big enough for him to turn his wheelchair around.<\/p>\n
“I have to balance a cup of coffee on my wheelchair arms while I reverse,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I keep looking behind so I don’t bump into things but I keep knocking into the skirting board and the doors are so narrow, I’m banging into them all the time.”<\/p>\n
He said the council had told him he would need to move to a different property rather than having his flat adapted.<\/p>\n
“I’ve been told I’m not the top priority,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I’ve been advised by the council to only bid on bungalows but most weeks there are no properties whatsoever.<\/p>\n
“When they do come up, they are allocated not just on mobility but on age as well.<\/p>\n
“I’m 58 so if people aged 60 and above are bidding they get priority, even though my needs are probably more.<\/p>\n
“There are no accessible properties in my neighbourhood, I would need to move to a part of the city I don’t know.<\/p>\n
“I just want to stay here with some adaptations.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Millen also struggles inside the flat as his kitchen is not big enough for him to turn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-482246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115337122565959419","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}