**Document:** Disability Access Comments
**Application:** 05/02041/C — Change of use of existing ground floor retail display unit to office accommodation
**Decision:** Permitted
**Decision Date:** 2005-12-16
**Parish:** Lonan
**Document Type:** consultation / consultation_response
**Source:** https://planningportal.im/a/79540-lonan-former-skillicorns-change-of-use/documents/1214074

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# Disability Access Comments

## Disability Access Office

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### Planning Application Submission

### Comment

Entrance should be accessible to an unassisted wheelchair user.

All reception counters should contain at least one section suitable for wheelchair users.

Toilet facilities should include the provision of a disabled toilet. If the provision is not to be on every floor then the horizontal distance a disabled person must travel should not exceed forty metres.

Where the building is over more than one level then a lift should be provided of sufficient dimensions as to allow an unassisted wheelchair user to enter, turn around and use the controls.

If the lift to be provided is not of evacuation standards, then a fire refuge area must be established on all floors other than the ground entrance level.

If a second accessible entrance exit is not available then a fire refuge area must be established on the ground entrance level.

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*Canonical page: https://planningportal.im/a/79540-lonan-former-skillicorns-change-of-use/documents/1214074*