# The Building (Scotland) Regulations 2004, Paragraph 4.1: Access to buildings


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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2004/406/schedule/5/paragraph/4.1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/building-scotland-regulations-2004/schedule-5/paragraph-4.1
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