NBS|

• The Approved Documents
• Limitation on requirements
• Materials and workmanship
• Mixed use development
• The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992
• Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and the Disability Discrimination (Employment) Regulations 1996

• Performance
• Where the requirements apply |
  • Application of Part M
  • Extensions and material alterations: dwellings
  • Extensions of non-domestic buildings
  • Material alterations of non-domestic buildings
  • Material changes of use
  • Car parking and setting down
• What requirements apply
• Educational establishments
• Historic buildings
• Access Statements
• Definitions

SECTIONS 1-5: BUILDINGS OTHER THAN DWELLINGS

• Objectives
• Level approach from the boundary of site and car parking
• On-site car parking and setting down
• Ramped access
• Stepped access
• Handrails to external stepped and ramped access
• Hazards on access routes

• Objectives
• Accessible entrances
• Doors to accessible entrances
• Manually operated non-powered entrance doors
• Powered entrance doors
• Glass entrance doors and glazed screens
• Entrance lobbies

• Objective
• Entrance hall and reception area
• Internal doors
• Corridors and passageways
• Internal lobbies
• Vertical circulation within the building
• Provision of lifting devices
• General requirements for lifting devices
• Passenger lifts
• Lifting platforms
• Wheelchair platform stairlifts
• Internal stairs
• Internal ramps
• Handrails to internal steps, stairs and ramps

• Objectives
• Audience and spectator facilities
• Refreshment facilities
• Sleeping accommodation
• Switches, outlets and controls
• Aids to communication

• Objectives
• Sanitary accommodation generally
• Provision of toilet accommodation
• Wheelchair-accessible unisex toilets
• Toilets in separate-sex washrooms
• Wheelchair-accessible changing and shower facilities
• Wheelchair-accessible bathrooms

SECTIONS 6-10: DWELLINGS

• Objective
• Approach to the dwelling
• Access into the dwelling
• Entrance doors

• Objective
• Corridors, passageways and internal doors within the entrance storey
• Vertical circulation within the entrance storey

• Objective

• Objectives

• Objectives

• 1. Tactile paving and an example of its use at an uncontrolled crossing
• 2. Parking bay designated for disabled people
• 3. Relationship of ramp gradient to the going of a flight
• 4. Stepped access - key dimensions and use of hazard warning surface
• 5. External steps and stairs - key dimensions
• 6. Examples of acceptable step profiles and key dimensions for external stairs
• 7. Handrail design
• 8. Avoiding hazards on access routes
• 9. Effective clear width and visibility requirements of doors
• 10. Key dimensions for lobbies with single leaf doors
• 11. Key dimensions associated with passenger lifts
• 12. Internal stairs - key dimensions
• 13. An example of wheelchair spaces in a lecture theatre
• 14. Possible location of wheelchair spaces in front of a rear aisle
• 15. An example of wheelchair space provision in a cinema or theatre
• 16. An example of a shared refreshment facility
• 17. One example of a wheelchair-accessible hotel bedroom with en-suite sanitary facilities
• 18. Unisex wheelchair-accessible toilet with corner WC
• 19. Height and arrangement of fittings in a unisex wheelchair-accessible toilet (looking towards wall A in Diagram 18)
• 20. Height of various fittings in toilet accommodation
• 21. WC cubicle for ambulant disabled people
• 22. An example of a self-contained changing room for individual use
• 23. An example of a self-contained shower room for individual use
• 24. An example of a shower room incorporating a corner WC for individual use
• 25. An example of a bathroom incorporating a corner WC
• 26. Grab rails and fittings associated with a bath
• 27. External step profiles
• 28. Corridors, passages and internal doors
• 29. Heights of switches, sockets etc
• 30. Common stairs in blocks of flats
• 31. Clear space for frontal access to WC
• 32. Clear space for oblique access to WC

• 1. Limits for ramp gradients
• 2. Minimum effective clear widths of doors
• 3. Provision of wheelchair spaces in audience seating
• 4. Minimum widths of corridors and passageways for a range of doorway widths