On 02/03/2020 20:03, Steve Walker wrote:
On 02/03/2020 08:08, Brian Gaff (Sofa 2) wrote:
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 xÂ* percentage, and then advertise them for six months. What
tends to
happen is one isÂ* fitted out but the advertising is very low key, very
few
are taken so the builder say we have xÂ* left over can we fit them out as
normal flats.

I'd suggest that we scrap most of the requirements of part M, but
provide adequate funds for providing the adaptations that people need.
No two people with disabilities will have the same need, so why try and
cater for them all with prescriptive rules?

SteveW
That is of course sensible, but politics under Blair wasn't about sense,
it was about emotion. There isn't much virtuye signalling legislation in
that is there?


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