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Access for all
— housing design and the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 | | Author(s) | Ruth Madigan, Joanne Milner |
| Journal title | Critical Social Policy, vol 19, no 3, August 1999 |
| Pages | pp 396-409 |
| Keywords | Architectural design [housing [elderly]] ; Accessibility [housing] ; Physical disabilities ; Rights [elderly] ; Law. |
| Annotation | The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 introduced proposals to make limited wheelchair access mandatory for all new house building. In the light of deregulation in the 1980s, the house building industry has been opposed to any extension of the Building Regulations. Media response suggests that level thresholds, ramped access, and wider doors are not immediately popular with many consumers either, having connotations of institutional design. There is, however, growing pressure, particularly from the housing association movement, to reinstate some form of minimum space standards. Building regulations governing access would reinforce this trend, and demand new flexible design which meets both the needs and aspirations of a wider range of potential users. It is important that building regulations should apply equally to socially rented and privately owned housing, to avoid stigmatising one sector. Innovative design is needed to produce homes which satisfy and expand social conventions of what a home should look like, as well as meeting minimum standards. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990826263 A |
| Classmark | KE:YB3: KE:5CA: BN: IKR: VR |
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