Good practice tips

Useful tools, and examples of spaces, products, and materials that work well to create attractive inclusive design in housing with care.

Wheelchair Guide for Accessible Bathroom

AKW, a manufacturer of accessible toilets and bathrooms, have produced a short guide on designing a wheelchair accessible bathroom.

Patient Home Environment Checklist: Make your home falls free

This leaflet from the Sussex Health and Care Partnership provides a checklist for householders about hazards found in their home.

Design guide for wheelchair accessible housing: Occupational Therapy Service

This design guide, published by Portsmouth City Council, represents good practice in home design for wheelchair users. It's involved the input of architects, surveyors and occupational therapists; and contains information from design briefs of leading housing providers and local authorities.

Wellbeing at Home: A study of the process and outcomes of home adaptations and reflections for future practice

This report captures the process and final outcomes of several major home adaptations undertaken by Archadia Chartered Architects, working closely with a South West London Council over the last three years.

Pretty, Good Quick Guides

The Pretty, Good Project have produced some handy guides on inclusive design in the home environment. Written with later life living in mind, but useful for making things easier at any stage of life, the guides contain ideas, things to consider and questions to ask around heights of appliances, chairs, bathrooms, showers, giving your home a fresh a lick of paint bathrooms and sprucing up your home.

An Occupational Therapist’s Access Checklist - a practical Tool

This Housing LIN checklist has been developed as a quick reference tool, to support decisions when making recommendations for the design of accessible and inclusive housing, when there may be a case to be made for exceeding the minimum requirements laid out in the Building Regulations.