**Document:** Disability Access Office Comments
**Application:** 05/01222/C — Change of use from retail unit to estate agents office (Conservation area)
**Decision:** Permitted
**Decision Date:** 2005-08-22
**Parish:** Malew
**Document Type:** consultation / consultation_response
**Source:** https://planningportal.im/a/78642-malew-8-10-malew-change-of-use/documents/1446497

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# Disability Access Office Comments

## Disability Access Office

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### Planning Application Submission

### Comment

Entrance should be accessible to an unassisted wheelchair user. Where there is full-length glass doors fitted they should be marked in some way at mid height to assist people with sight impairment.

It is preferable to have automatic doors but where this is not the case then the doors should not be so heavy as to require a pulling force exceeding twenty Newton’s, measured at the leading edge, to open the door.

Inside layout should have sufficient aisle width as to allow an unassisted wheelchair user to manoeuvre.

All serving counters should contain at least one section suitable for wheelchair users. (e.g. low enough to use to write a cheque)

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*Data sourced from the Isle of Man public planning register under the [Isle of Man Open Government Licence](https://www.gov.im/about-this-site/open-government-licence/).*
*Canonical page: https://planningportal.im/a/78642-malew-8-10-malew-change-of-use/documents/1446497*