Hi John

I may be able to help as I've been working with a local authority in Gt 
Manchester for 6 months on access statements and produced a range of 
training resources on access statements for planners, building control 
officers and their in-house architects and also for councillors (members). 
It included all the issues you would expect, including including different 
materials for some planners and building control officers, but we also used 
the opportunity to jointly develop an in-house decision making process and 
produced templates and checklists that could be used by officers and 
applicants. We also used case studies to explore decision making. I have 
also produced some training programmes and materials for planners in 
another authority on access standards, before access statements came in and 
are currently developing a training pack for traffic engineers, 
environmental designers and others on the current situation.

If you would like more information, please contact me.

I will be working from home today but if you email me, I will contact you 
directly.

Best wishes

Flick


At 15:58 05/07/2005 +0000, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Training on and about Access Statements has been highlighted as a gap in 
>Knowsley MBC. I have been asked to identify organisations that provide 
>training packages that will enable Planning Officers, Access Officers and 
>Building Control Officers to fully understand their respective roles in 
>interpreting what the Access Statements should say and do.
>
>If you have a training package that you feel will fill this knowledge gap, 
>please let me know. If your organisation cannot help us at this time, 
>perhaps you can suggest another organisation that may.
>
>I will be meeting my colleagues on 14th July so it will be helpful if you 
>can get back to me before then
>
>Regards,
>
>John Rainey  Tel. 0151 443 3791
>Access Officer
>
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