On 02/03/2020 20:18, charles wrote:
In article , 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 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.

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?


On a Disabilty Awareness course it was suggested that less than 10% of
disabled people need a wheelchair. Most disabilites aren't visible.

Indeed. I once asked my BI why sockets had to be so high off the floor
'so that people in wheelchairs and the old cam reach them'
"So how do they change a light bulb then, and how many more will trip
over the flex to their vacuum cleaners?"

None of it makes a deal of sense. Its all just virtue signalling.
Only a decent corridor width made sense. And stair dimensions.

my wheelchair bound friends could easily make the 1 inch step up from a
paving slab to the threshold, but for the BI I built a detachable wooden
ramp



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