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Paragraph 4.1 Access to buildingsF1

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Every building must be designed and constructed in such a way that all occupants and visitors are provided with safe, convenient and unassisted means of access to the building.

Limitation

There is no requirement to provide access for a wheelchair user to–

(a)

a house, between either the point of access to or from any car parking within the curtilage of a building and an entrance to the house where it is not reasonably practicable to do so; or

(b)

a common entrance of a domestic building not served by a lift, where there are no dwellings entered from a common area on the entrance storey.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Schs. 1-6 substituted (1.5.2007) by The Building (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2006 (S.S.I. 2006/534), regs. 1, 2(c), sch. (with regs. 3, 4)