NB. Some guidelines,
especially specialist guidelines, may be out of date and may not have been
amended to take account of new Building Regulations or best practice.
Some specialist resources have not been listed because they have not
been updated recently or are not written to best practice
standards. |
MDPAG's guidelines for housing, accessible
toilet suites and those listed in Design for Access 2 are more detailed than
some others available. Contact MDPAG for more information.
Access
consultants or access groups should be contacted for further information,
particularly for education, residential facilities, play provision, outdoor
facilities and other specialist provision.
Another list is available
from the Centre for Accessible
Environments |
- Access Audits
of Primary Healthcare Buildings: Health Facilities Note 20 NHS Estates,
1997 (but much of it very out of date)
- Access
for Disabled People - consultation papers, guidance, links from
the Department for Transport
- Access for Disabled
People - Sport England (PDF format, 2002)
- Access Journal - useful
articles & information from Access Association and JMU Access
Partnership
- Accessible Conference Venues -
checklists & briefing notes for conference organisers & venue
providers, from CAE (see also Manchester DPN's
Guidelines for Accessible Meetings and Events)
- Building Regulations
Approved Document M, Access to and use of buildings, Dept for Communities and
Local Government - key legislation for all new buildings &
refurbishments including amended Fire Safety Regulations from
2007
- British Standards Institute -
for information on and ordering BSI standards
- BS 5588 Part
8, Fire Precautions in the Design and Construction of Buildings: Means of
Escape for Disabled People, British
Standards Institute, 1999
- BS 8300:2001
Design of buildings and their approaches to meet the needs of disabled people,
Code of Practice, British Standards
Institute (uses the medical model of disability, not the social
model of disability, currently under review)
- Code for Interior Lighting - CIBSE,
1994
- Colour and Contrast Guide -
guidance for interior & exterior design & refurbishments, ICI
Dulux
- Design and Access
Statements - new provisions for the Planning Stage, Circular 01/06
from the Department for Communities and Local Government (implementation of
provisions in the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 & changes to
the General Development Procedure Order (GDPO)
- Design and access
statements: how to write, read and use them - limited guidelines
with some poor advice on access issues from CABE (PDF
format)
- Disability
Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA) - HMSO, see also the Codes of
Practice, available from the Disability Rights Commission
- Disability
Equality Duty - DRC guidance
- DDA (Disability Discrimination Act)
Codes of Practice - provided by the Disability Rights Commission
(DRC)
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- Design for
Access 2 manual - produced by Manchester Disabled People's Access
Group & Manchester City Council to use in the development of all City
Council buildings & projects, including guidance on the environment,
buildings, accommodation & specialist provision
- Designing for Accessibility, Centre for
Accessible Environments, 2004
- Disability access: a good practice guide
for the arts, Arts Council England, available online
only
- Good Loo Design Guide, 2nd edition -
2004, RIBA
- Guidance
on the use of tactile paving surfaces - guidelines from the
Department for Transport (PDF file), modified 2005
- Guide to good practice in commissioning
accessible websites - doesn't include any content issues but
useful guidelines for technical support alongside the proposed new WW3
guidance
- Guidelines for Accessible Meetings and Events -
guidelines for meetings & conference organisers from Manchester Disabled
People's Network
- Inclusive
Mobility - transport infrastructure, pedestrians, wheelchair & scooter
users - Department for Transport, Mobility Unit, July
2005
- Manual
for Streets - a summary of existing guidelines, Department for
Transport, 2007
- Planning and Access
for Disabled People, A Good Practice Guide - Office of the Deputy
Prime Minister
- Planning,
Buildings & Streets - applying the Disability Equality Duty to
local authority departments responsible for planning, design & management
of the built environment and streets across Great Britain
- Planning Portal -
resources & information on the planning process
- Regulatory
Reform (Fire Safety Order) 2006 - fire safety law and guidance
documents for business, voluntary organisations &
charities
- Fire
Safety Risk Assessment - Means of Escape for Disabled People (Supplementary
Guide) - supplementary information to the Regulatory Reform (Fire
Safety Order) 2007
- Sensory Trust - range of
publications & information on outdoor, landscape and historic environment
design
- Shared
surfaces - reports critical of the use of shared spaces for
pedestrians & traffic, Guide Dogs, 2007
- Sign
Design Guide - A Guide to inclusive signage - Barker, Peter and
Fraser, JMU and the Sign Design Society, June 1999
- Streetscape
Guidance - guidance from Transport for London, 2005
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