Wheelchair housing design guide, 2nd edition | Archive publications

Note: the third edition of the Wheelchair Housing Design Guide will be published in early 2018. Please contact us for more information or to pre-order your copy today.

The second edition of our Wheelchair housing design guide, produced with Stephen Thorpe, came out in 2006. The original research was undertaken among a cross-section of wheelchair users, with participation from housing association practitioners, architects and other professionals. Working with wheelchair housing expert and architect Stephen Thorpe, Habinteg updated the guide to reflect statutory and perceptual advances in wheelchair standard design in the built environment.

The wheelchair housing design guide will:

• Provide design details and good practice examples which take account of current guidelines and regulations.
• Promote the long term cost and other benefits of designing to wheelchair accessibility standards.
• Reflect and promote the values and principles of the existing strategies for social inclusion, the Disability Discrimination Act, and the diversity agenda.

The second edition of the Wheelchair housing design guide is available for purchase from the BRE bookshop, both in hard copy and as a digital download.