Reference Documents

“Inclusive Mobility: A Guide to Best Practice on Access to Pedestrian and Transport Infrastructure” (Department for Transport, 2002).

A guide to best practice on access to the pedestrian environment and the minimum standards that local authorities should adopt, and work to.  

 

“Guidance on the Use of Tactile Paving Surfaces” (Department for Transport, 1999).

 

“Manual for Streets” (Department for Transport, 2007).

Design guidance for streets. The focus is on lightly trafficked residential streets but may also apply to High Streets.

 

“BS8300: The design of buildings and their approaches to meet the needs of disabled people – Code of practice” (British Standards Institute, 2009).

The focus is on buildings but also includes guidance on the external environment where this relates to approaches to buildings. Cost: £240 or BSI Member Price £120. Available from BSI Customer Services: Tel 0208 9969001; e-mail: orders@bsigroup.com

 

“The Principles of Inclusive Design” (Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE), 2006).

This guide sets out the principles of inclusive design to create places that everyone can use.  

 

“Planning, buildings, streets and disability equality” (Disability Rights Commission, 2006).

A guide to the Disability Equality Duty and Disability Discrimination Act 2005 for local authority departments responsible for planning, design and management of the built environment and streets.