Disabled Access Design Guide
It is estimated that there are 11.7 million disabled people in the UK. Disabled people have often been denied access to facilities and services that able-bodied people have taken for granted. The difficulties that disabled people have experienced when accessing these facilities and services often relates, not to an individual's disability, but to the lack of thought and lack of awareness of society when designing the built environment around us and when establishing how services are provided.
The way that buildings are designed has an impact on disabled people, elderly people and parents with children. Their access requirements should be incorporated into how we shape our environment. We can all benefit from a more easily accessible built environment, accessible design is invariably good design for all.
Designing for Accessibility in Bracknell Forest has been produced to give guidance to those who are planning, designing and implementing how we shape the built environment and details the standards of accessibility that should be achieved in all development in the Borough. Please use the link on the right-hand side of this page to look at the guidance.
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