Wheelchair Housing Design Guide

Wheelchair Housing Design Guide

The Wheelchair Housing Design Guide explains how to design and detail a home that is fully manageable by wheelchair users and maximises their independence. This fully-updated, activity-based guide discusses design considerations, requirements and recommendations for various activities carried out within the home; provides design solutions and good practice examples of how to comply with the building accessibility regulations and Building Regulations Part M; reflects and promotes the values and principles of existing strategies for social inclusion, and promotes the long-term cost benefits of designing to wheelchair accessibility standards.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter | 3 pages

Introduction

chapter | 2 pages

Building Regulations and planning policy

chapter | 1 pages

Format of the guide

chapter 1 | 2 pages

Strategic site development

chapter 2 | 10 pages

External approach routes and parking

chapter 3 | 10 pages

Communal entrances, doors and circulation

chapter 4 | 8 pages

Individual dwelling entrances and other external doors

chapter 5 | 10 pages

Dwelling circulation areas and storage

chapter 6 | 4 pages

Moving between levels within the dwelling

chapter 7 | 6 pages

Using living spaces

chapter 8 | 14 pages

Using the kitchen

chapter 9 | 8 pages

Bedrooms

chapter 10 | 20 pages

Bathrooms

chapter 11 | 4 pages

Operating internal doors and windows

chapter 12 | 6 pages

Services and controls

chapter 13 | 4 pages

Using outdoor spaces

chapter 14 | 11 pages

Designing wheelchair adaptable dwellings

chapter Appendix 1 | 3 pages

Appendices Furniture schedule

chapter Appendix 2 | 2 pages

Glossary of terms

chapter Appendix 3 | 1 pages

Legislation and technical standards

chapter Appendix 4 | 1 pages