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<p>The National Planning Policy Framework is supportive of good and inclusive design.
This is important, given the government's commitment to building successful and attractive
communities. The Framework defines inclusive design as ‘designing the built environment,
including buildings and their surrounding spaces, to ensure that they can be accessed
and used by everyone’.</p><p>Specific requirements relating to access to and use of
new buildings, including buildings to which the public has access, are set out in
Part M of Schedule 1 of the Building Regulations. Statutory guidance, which supports
these requirements, set out in Approved Document M, Volume 2 – buildings other than
dwellings, states that toilet accommodation needs to be suitable, not only for disabled
people, but for all people who use the building.</p><p>The Ministry of Housing, Communities
and Local Government has commissioned research into the effectiveness of the guidance
which supports the Building Regulations’ requirements relating to access to and use
of non-domestic buildings. We will be taking the research into account in considering
whether any changes need to be made to the guidance on the provision of toilet facilities
for people with disabilities.</p>
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