Sport England – Accessible Sports Facilities
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Design Guidance Note Creating sporting opportunities in every community Accessible Sports Facilities Formerly known as Access for Disabled People Updated 2010 guidance April Revision 003 © Sport England 2010 Accessible Sports Facilities Design Guidance Note Foreword Sport England believes that good facilities are Sport England’s Design fundamental to developing sporting opportunities for everyone, from the youngest beginner to the Guidance Notes aim to: international class athlete. The buildings whether large or small can encourage civic pride and assist • Increase awareness of the process of revitalising deprived neighbourhoods. good design in sports Facilities that are well designed built to last and facilities. well maintained are a pleasure to use and give an ample return on the time and money invested in • Help key building their construction and day to day use. professions, clients, Good design needs to be based on a sound understanding of such issues as the current trends user representatives and practices within individual sports, and other stakeholders developments in the sport and leisure industry and the lessons to be learnt from previously built to follow best practice. schemes. • Encourage well Good design needs to be embraced within the earliest vision statement for a particular project designed sports and enshrined in the initial briefing stage through facilities that meet the to the final detailed specifications and operational arrangements. needs of sports and are a pleasure to use. Sport England Design Guidance Notes aim to promote a greater general understanding of overall design concepts, an appreciation of technical issues and the critical factors that need to be considered in reaching the appropriate solution for a particular project. They also advise where further information, advice and expertise may be found and point to benchmark examples. April Revision 003 1 © Sport England 2010 Accessible Sports Facilities Design Guidance Note Contents 1.0 Introduction 4 11.0 Finishes 53 • Disabled People • Acoustic Requirements • The Legislative Context • Visual Requirements 2.0 The Inclusive Design Process 8 12.0 Services 56 • Accommodating Sports Chairs • Electrical Services • Adapting and Improving Existing Buildings • Heating • Access Audits • Lighting 3.0 Arriving At The Facility 12 13.0 Management Issues 57 • External Features 14.0 Spectator/Viewing Provision 58 4.0 The Entrance 19 15.0 Swimming Pools 60 • Foyer/Reception Area • Changing Areas 5.0 Internal Circulation 23 • Showers • Route to the Pool • Corridors • Pool Design • Ramps • Access to the Water • Stairs • Equipment and Environment • Handrails • Doors 16.0 Sport-Specific Requirements 67 • Lifts • Boccia 6.0 Emergency Escape 33 • Canoeing • Fitness Suite • Fire Evacuation • Goalball 7.0 Changing Areas 36 • Power-lifting • Main Changing Areas • Sailing • Equipment • Shooting • Unisex Accessible Changing • Showers 17.0 Wheelchair Sports 74 • Athletics (indoor and outdoor) • Badminton 8.0 Toilet Provision 46 • Basketball • Unisex Accessible Provision • Bowls 9.0 Social Areas 49 • Cricket • Furniture • Fencing • Servery • Rugby • Vending Machines • Table Tennis • Tennis 10.0 Communication Systems 50 • Public Telephones 18.0 Access In The Countryside 79 • Public Address Systems 19.0 Conclusion 79 • Text Phones • Induction Loops 20.0 Contacts 80 • Infrared Systems • Controls • Signs April Revision 003 2 © Sport England 2010 Accessible Sports Facilities Design Guidance Note Contents - Tables and Figures Tables Description Page Table 1 Disabled people participate and compete in a wide range of sports 5 Table 2 Accessible car parking spaces – requirements 13 Table 3 External doors – requirements 19 Table 4 Reception area – requirements 20 Table 5 Internal doors – requirements (except accessible toilets and changing rooms) 28 Table 6 Accessible Passenger lift car & door sizes 30 Table 7 Lifts – minimum clear door width requirements 31 Table 8 Changing areas – requirements 44 Table 9 Accessible toilet provision – requirements 46 Table 10 Family / disabled cubicles - requirements 61 Table 11 Pool equipment – requirements 61 Table 12 Typical dimensions for sportschairs 74 Figures Description Page Figure 1 Accessible car parking bays 13 Figure 2 Setting-down point 14 Figure 3 Designing an access route 15 Figure 4 Reception area 21 Figure 5 Reception desk - key dimensions 22 Figure 6 Internal circulation for facilities WITHOUT ‘Sports Chair Zones’. 24 Figure 7 Internal circulation for facilities WITH ‘Sports Chair Zones’. 25 Figure 8 Entrance lobby for sportshalls and tennis centres - minimum dimensions 25 Figure 9 Internal lobby for sportshalls and tennis centres - minimum dimensions 25 Figure 10 Doors – clear widths 27 Figure 11 Doors – side clearances 27 Figure 12 Doors – location of vision panels 28 Figure 13 Lift – critical details 30 Figure 14 Accessible team changing facilities 36 Figure 15 Accessible group changing facilities 37 Figure 16 Unisex accessible changing room 40 Figure 17 Unisex accessible changing room with fixed bench seat 40 Figure 18 Unisex accessible changing room with shower, WC and fixed bench seat 41 Figure 19 Unisex ‘Changing Places Facility’ (see BS8300 figure 58) where assisted change 42 is to be provided. Figure 20 Accessible changing cubicle within a main changing room 43 Figure 21 Key vertical dimensions to accessible shower area 44 Figure 22 Typical shower area for general use incorporating changing bench 45 Figure 23 Accessible shower cubicle incorporated into main shower cubicle area 45 Figure 24 Standard unisex accessible WC (left hand transfer) 47 Figure 25 ‘Sports Chair Zone’ unisex accessible WC with power operated door set 47 Figure 26 Key vertical dimensions and fittings to accessible WC and changing area 47 Figure 27 General toilet provision incorporating wheelchair accessible toilet facilities 48 Figure 28 Signs and controls 51 Figure 29 Section indicating raised platform to bleacher seating for elevated wheelchair viewing 59 Figure 30 Typical sections through side or end ditch 77 April Revision 003 3 © Sport England 2010 Accessible Sports Facilities Design Guidance Note 1.0 Introduction This guidance note sets out Sport England’s advice on meeting the needs of the widest range of people in the design, operation and maintenance of sports facilities, following the principles of Inclusive Design. This includes considering the needs of parents with young children, older people, alongside the needs of disabled people – people with sensory, cognitive and mobility impairments, including wheelchair users. This guidance note should be read alongside the other good practice documents referenced throughout this note and other relevant guidance Disabled People available from the Sport In the 2001 census 20% of the population claimed to have some form of disability. Disabled people England website have a wide spectrum of different and sometimes conflicting needs. Inclusive Design sets out to strike the best balance between all user needs and Other key reference should include the following: other demands on an environment, including cost. • Olympic Delivery Authority’s Inclusive Design Standards • There are approximately 2,000,000 people in the UK with significant sight loss: of these, • BS8300 : 2009 ‘Design of buildings and their 364,615 are registered as blind or partially approaches to meet the needs of disabled sighted 1. A logical layout, the use of colour, people – Code of Practice’ light levels and the avoidance of glare and clear signage are some of the design issues • FLA Accessible Stadia, 2004 which are important to people with visual • DfT Inclusive Mobility: a guide to best practice impairments. in the design of pedestrian and transport • There are 8,945,000 deaf and hard of hearing infrastructure. people in the UK and there are 23,000 Disabled people are disabled by poorly designed deafblind people in the UK. There are an environments and providing add-on or special estimated 50,000 people who use British Sign facilities creates segregation rather than inclusion. Language as their first or preferred language. For example, the reason a wheelchair user cannot There are 1,400,000 people who use a hearing 2 use the fitness equipment room in a sports centre aid regularly . The design of spaces to achieve is not because he or she is in a wheelchair. The good speech intelligibility, light levels and the design and management of the facility creates the avoidance of glare to assist lip reading, clear barriers and limitations that disable. Consequently, signage, as well as the installation of assistive the correct view would be that ‘a wheelchair user hearing systems, such as induction loops are cannot use the fitness equipment room because some of the design issues which are important the equipment is inappropriate and / or the room to people with hearing impairments. is located on an inaccessible floor’. Or ‘the person • There are 1,500,000 people with a learning cannot use the fitness equipment room because disability in the UK. People with a learning the staff have not had adequate training’. 1 Royal National Institute for the Blind 2 Royal National Institute for the Deaf April Revision 003 4 © Sport England 2010 Accessible Sports Facilities Design Guidance Note Visual impairment Learning disability Mobility impairment Wheelchair users Recreational (GB) National International Paralympics Recreational (GB) National International Paralympics Recreational (GB) National International Paralympics Recreational (GB) National