Thanks for your replies.
John Rainey
>From: "Hunt, Alan" <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Accessibuilt list <[log in to unmask]>
>To: John Rainey <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Tactile Paving & School Entrances
>Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 09:00:18 +0100
>
>Morning John
>
>The RNIB and DfT recommend that a tactile surface should be provided
>wherever a person with a vision impairment might inadvertantly stray into a
>traffic area from a pedestrian area. I understand that this includes school
>entrances.
>
>If the footpath crossing to, say, a garage forecourt or driveway to a
>shopping centre, has a 25mm step at the 'flush' kerb, the tactile surface
>may still be considered along its length if the entrance is heavily used by
>vehicles.
>
>In Pembrokeshire we always use the appropriate blister surface when flush
>kerbs are installed, even for a single footpath access when there is no
>corresponding footpath or flush kerb on the opposite side of the road. We
>do not install blister paving for a footpath crossing for a driveway when
>the 'flush' kerb has a 25mm step although we do sometimes consider it in
>the
>circumstances mentioned above for heavily trafficked areas.
>
>I hope this makes sense........
>
>
>Alan Hunt
>Access Officer, Pembrokeshire County Council
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Rainey [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: 30 September 2004 16:32
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Tactile Paving & School Entrances
> >
> > I have had a request by a member of our local Access Group to have
>tactile
> > paving at dropped kerbs at crossing points either side of a school
> > entrance
> > gate. We do lay them at road crossings but as a rule we don't put them
>at
> > the entrance to schools.
> >
> > Are there local authorities that have a policy of laying them at school
> > entrances?
> >
> > John Rainey
> >
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