Submitted on Saturday 8th February 2014
Published on Wednesday 19th February 2014
Current status: Closed
Closed: Thursday 19th February 2015
Signatures: 3
Disabled Dignity And Privacy Inadequate In New Dwelling WC Access
The Access Strategy of Doc M currently states regarding wheelchair access to downstairs toilets in new dwellings that: "it is not always practical for the wheelchair to be fully accommodated in the WC."
This is an unacceptable double-standard. So able-bodied people have greater rights of privacy than wheelchair-bound people??!! In that case, remove all WC toilet doors from new build cloaks and see how quickly, especially the female population will make an outcry! Wheelchair-users are a minority but we have a human right as equal as any man.
The building regulations must change. Giving wheelchair users access to a toilet is a great leap forward but that leap will not be finished until the closing of a door behind them is included.
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