Hi Flick,

Just to say we have used your D4A2 as an example of good practice with local
organisations. Is it now available in hard copy?

Could you let us have any information on your residential standards as well
please? Many thanks


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From: Accessibuilt list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Flick Harris
Sent: 25 January 2007 13:12
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Subject: Re: Standards for Inclusive Design

Thanks Justin for the link to our standards!

Manchester City Council have adopted these standards as policy, 
unlike, as far as I'm aware, other local authorities who use best 
practice standards as guidelines only. This means we can get some 
developments changed as has happened recently with one external 
development in a regeneration area which was not designed or built to 
Design for Access 2 standards.

Also, Alyson, you might be interested to note that we have some 
residential standards which are better than Lifetime Homes and are 
currently being used in some of the development areas, including 
Housing Market Renewal projects in Manchester.

However, the standards are incomplete and don't include everything we 
(MDPAG) initially wanted but it took us 18 months including extensive 
consultation within the City Council. So, we don't have adult 
changing areas (known by others as "hygiene suites" but we call them 
"accessible toilet suites") or changing areas for primary school 
children in the manual, but we have agreed with MCC some design 
standards for use in schools and in other public buildings since D4A2 
was published. We have also done some more work with the city council 
(MCC) on design for inclusive schools, parks and outdoor areas, use 
of trams in city centres etc.

Let me know if you would like more information!

The City Council agreed to publish D4A2 but we gave them some money 
for accessible formats so there should be no problem if you need 
different formats.

Best wishes

Flick



At 10:06 25/01/2007, you wrote:
>Presumably you mean something beyond BS8300? Try the Merseyside on 
>line http://www.accesscode.info/ or Manchester City Council 
>http://www.manchester.gov.uk/disability/policies/access/ is it 
>something similar to this you are trying to develop for Stoke?
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>Kind Regards
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>Justin Ryan
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>Alyson Matthews
>Sent: 24 January 2007 09:29
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>Subject: Standards for Inclusive Design
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>Does anyone know if there are any national standards for inclusive design,
>perhaps standards which have been adopted by other Local Authorities?  We
>are currently writing a guide to inclusive design for Stoke-on-Trent City
>Council, and we want to bench-mark our document against similar guides, if
>possible.
>
>Also, is anyone aware of any international inclusive design standards? A
>colleague has suggested that there may be guides from Scandinavia, but I
>haven't been able to find anything on the internet.
>
>Any suggestions gratefully received.
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