1973

There is a major breakthrough when Reverend Short contacts Ken with an offer of suitable land to build on, providing there is planning permission and a housing association willing to take it on. There are complications:  the very idea of people wanting to set up home independently in the community with Ken and Maggie’s impairments was so revolutionary that no official category of housing provision actually existed to encompass it. This factor caused endless difficulty in the initial stages of obtaining planning consent.