Major building adaptations

[Giddypants]

The short and long of this is basically ds1 is immobile he has a bedroom upstairs.
The house is a modernist 4 bed 2 double, 1 single and 1 box room, main house bathroom is upstairs there is a small cloakroom downstairs which ds1 is using for his toileting. And also an integral garage.
We have DS 1&2 and me and dh.
What we want basically is for the adaptations team to extend the bathroom into the box room to create a wheel in shower area, through floor lift which goes from the dining room to the box room, where we can remove th wall adjoining it to the hall, and then an extention onto the back to make a downstairs bedroom for the future. He's too you right now to sleep downstairs, and I think if we're going to get all this work done we may as well to the extention too.
My question is do you think this is feasible? And would they go for it?
What could I do to convince them that this is the best solution?

Hi Giddypants.

Are you intending to tell the team about the downstairs bedroom idea? I have a few concerns about the plan, but I may not be reading correctly:

1. The total grant is only £30,000. It doesn't sound like the work you want is going to be cheap?

1. I don't think they'll want to do a through floor lift if you're then going to move him downstairs within 5 years.

1. If you do move him downstairs, then he'll still have to go upstairs for showers, etc.

1. I think they'll see it as cheaper and easier/more effective to do an ground floor extension to create a downstairs bedroom/wet room, then there won't be a need to go upstairs.

Thanks lougle, I didn't realise it was only 30,000! I don't know. What to tell them in all honesty. We are wondering now if it would be a good idea to convert the garage? But that would take all our storage room.
To be honest it would be easier if they just gave us the money to put towards a more suitable house!

We would be looking to move him to a downstairs bedroom, when he is late teens, so old enough to be trusted, but still close enough so we can keep an eye on him.
He's defiantly not ready to be downstrirs on his own, so would need a way of getting him upstairs

I agree with Lougle. They will either do one scheme or the other. They will go for the cheapest option and not necessarily what suits you best as a family. If it costs more than £30K you will have to find the difference yourself.
You don't say how old your DS is or what the issue is around him being downstairs. If he is immobile, he presumably can't get into too much trouble. Would fitting CCTV type cameras and/or baby monitors not give you/him reassurance? We have a baby monitor where we can actually talk to DD.
We had an extension for an upstairs bedroom and bathroom and a through floor lift about 10 yrs ago for DD. We went for this option as I have to get up to DD frequently in the night and didn't want to be falling traipsing downstairs and through 2 rooms to where a downstairs extension would have been. However, as DD has grown her wheelchair only just fits in the lift and we cross our fingers she doesn't grow any more and need a bigger chair. Also, the lift once broke down and took 4 days to repair as they had to get spare parts - that was a nightmare. Now we have carers in, it is also quite intrusive, as her bedroom as very close to ours and DSs so we have little privacy. With hindsight it would have been better to build a downstairs extension and in an ideal world, included a sitting/kitchen area so DDs requirements could be self contained when carers come in.

He's just 5 and we are frequently up to him in the night sometimes up to 20 times! We are hoping that in the future this will settle enough that he can be downstairs with a monitor just so we can keep an eye.
Currently dh sleeps on his bedroom floor, we've had a bit of a fitting scare lately too so we need to be near.
Would adaptations see fit to offer another grant in the future?