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Terms and conditions applyLegislation Maze: Inclusive Accessible Design
Adrian Cave
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Format: Book
Pages: 98
Publisher: RIBA Publishing
Date Published: Aug 2007
Stock Code: 61455
ISBN: 9781859462508
Binding: Paperback
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Inclusive Accessible Design will help designers to take a creative approach in responding to the requirements of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, Part M of the Building Regulations and BS 8300:2001. Organised logically and in line with the new RIBA Plan of Work, the guidance alerts designers to the information required to make decisions about access and inclusive design at the appropriate time during the course of a building project.
Fully cross-referenced and including useful flowcharts for designing dwellings and non-dwellings, the book is an invaluable route-map to successfully designing buildings that take account of all users.
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Featured Reviews
Reviewed by Peter J G Williams, Real Estate Practice Lawyer, Eversheds LLP in Access By Design journal, issue 113.
This publication is part of the Legislation Maze series of guides from RIBA Publishing, which, according to the book’s introduction, ‘comprises short, easy-to-use, topic-based guides to legislation for construction professionals and students in construction related fields. The series focuses on aspects of design and job management that are controlled by several statutory instruments and related codes and approved documents, and where, in practice, assimilating these can be difficult and time-consuming.’ Judged on these last two criteria, there could be few better topics for this series than accessibility. The Disability Discrimination Act itself requires an understanding of three principal statutes, plenty of statutory instruments, a good handful of codes – and that is merely the legal side. Designers also need a good understanding of BS 8300:2001 and Approved Document M (AD M), and there must be dozens of other publications that are relevant to the design and construction of buildings. This guide serves the useful role of bringing them all to the reader’s attention and highlighting their significance in relation to both dwellings and commercial buildings. As a lawyer, I am not qualified to comment on the adequacy and completeness of the technical content, but from what I know of the issues it appears to be first rate. The main part of the work follows the RIBA Plan of Work, divided into stages ranging from A (appraisal) to L (post practical completion). The longest chapters cover stages C (concept) and DE (design development and technical design), considering respectively BS 8300 and AD M. But the guide contains more than lists of technical requirements. There is helpful and concise commentary on the concept of inclusive design, which from its introduction less than fifty years ago is now enshrined in AD M; this now requires ‘reasonable provision to be made for people [not just disabled people] to gain access to and use the building and its facilities.’ There is also a short narrative section on ‘Access and emergency escape’, which must be one of the most complex issues facing inclusive designers, with the conflicting requirements of ensuring access to buildings for disabled people and ensuring that, without the assistance of lifts, they are able to evacuate the building safely in an emergency. Approved Document B, revised with effect from April this year, is summarised here to form a helpful overview of the salient issues. The other new topic that is covered in the narrative section is design and access statements, which have been required to be submitted with planning applications since August 2006. The guide states that these were originally recommended by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (now the Department for Communities and Local Government) in 2003, as a means of ‘stating the philosophy and approach to inclusive design.’ The guidance published in 2006 by the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, the Government’s design adviser, says that such statements should show that the applicant has ‘thought carefully about how everyone, including disabled people, will be able to use the places they want to build.’ The case law on design and access statements is still developing as designers and developers start to comply with the new requirements, and no doubt there will be more to say about them in the future. Overall, then, this is a useful addition to the bookshelf. The only obvious omission seems to be a biography for Adrian, which is sufficiently impressive to deserve inclusion in a book of this nature. No doubt Adrian himself, a former chairman of the Centre for Accessible Environments, appreciates the time and effort that has gone into making this book so – dare I say it – accessible.
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