Technical Booklet E Fire Safety·Page 74·2.79
Wheelchair accessible refuge space
Each refuge must provide a wheelchair-accessible area of at least 900 mm × 1400 mm. In protected stairways, lobbies, or corridors, this wheelchair space must not reduce the escape route width or obstruct the flow of persons escaping.
Each refuge should provide an area accessible to a wheelchair of at least 900 mm x 1400 mm in which a wheelchair user can await assistance. Where a refuge is in a protected stairway or protected lobby or protected corridor the wheelchair space should not reduce the width of the escape route. Where the wheelchair space is within a protected stairway, access to the wheelchair space should not obstruct the flow of persons escaping.
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