Adaptable and accessible accommodation requirements

Adaptable and accessible accommodation: All housing (including intermediate housing for sale or rent) must be built in accordance with Policy HOU7: Adaptable and Accessible Accommodation, which lists a number of accessibility standards to be complied with and which requires 10% of units in schemes of 10 units or more to be designed as wheelchair adaptable. As noted above, DfC's HAG7 and Intermediate Rent8 design standards require that all social rented and SIR housing is built to Lifetime Home standards, which will therefore meet the accessible housing requirements of Policy HOU7. In relation to the wheelchair adaptable units, these should be provided within both the affordable and private elements of the scheme.