I think I'd be able to cope with houses on stilts. Its very silly at the
moment since if we are talking wheelchairs, many new builds are inaccessible
still, due to insufficient turn space inside.
There is a scandal about homes for disabled people, whereby builders have to
provide x percentage, and then advertise them for six months. What tends to
happen is one is fitted out but the advertising is very low key, very few
are taken so the builder say we have x left over can we fit them out as
normal flats.
Brian

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On Sunday, 1 March 2020 23:05:27 UTC, Steve Walker wrote:
On 01/03/2020 20:27, Brian Gaff (Sofa 2) wrote:
I often wonder why nobody builds houses on stilts these days.
Brian

While it makes sense from a flood point of view, it does rather cause a
problem with the level access requirements of Part M.

SteveW

Would it not be sensible to corrugate the land before building on it, so
there are low lying areas for roads & high ridges for houses?
And then if necessary do as newshound describes.
It's part M that's causing the problem, and a lack of requirement to sort
the land levels before building.
Another possibility is to build medium rise, only the bottom floor is then
vulnerable, the rest aren't.


NT