ACCESS

Design for Disabled People in Home Zones (2007)

Design considerations to enable disabled people feel more comfortable and safe in home zones.

Published by DpTAC. 

Inclusive Mobility

A Guide to Best Practice on Access to Pedestrian and Transport Infrastructure.

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Creating Accessible Home Zones

A draft leaflet from Sustrans on the experience of Dings in Bristol.

DTLR, (1998)

DfT guidance on the Use of Tactile Paving Surfaces.

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DTLR, (1995)

Traffic Advisory Leaflet 5/95: Parking for disabled People.

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Shared Space and the Blind

A Guidedogs report on the problems of shared space for disabled users.

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British Standards Institute, (2001)

British Standards 8300: Design of buildings and their approaches to meet the needs of disabled people – Code of Practice, BSI.

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JMU Access Partnership

Technical Bulletin: Streets and External Environments.
Sign Design Guidance.
Colour and Tone Contrast.

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Dptac

A guide to best practice on preparing and delivering project briefs to secure access.

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Institution of Transport Studies, University of Leeds, (1991)

An ergonomic Study of Pedestrian Areas for Disabled People.

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New Disability Discrimination Act, (2005)

Places a Disability Equality Duty on the public sector “to actively promote disability equality”. It is akin to the duty to promote race equality. Key public bodies will be required to produce Disability Equality Schemes and action plans and to report annual. The Act also extends the DDA to cover most local authority functions including planning and access to roads and streets.

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