disability Access consultancy
Turnkey disability access consulting solutions making our world easy for anyone to navigate.
disability access EXPERTS
DISABILITY ACCESS IN ALL ENVIRONMENTS
Town Planning & Access fully understands the importance of providing disability access to built environments, to ensure it is easy for any person to navigate.
As Accessibility Consultants, we offer turnkey disabled access consulting solutions
We provide specialist accessibility advice and disability access consultancy solutions to help you achieve the required levels of disabled access within built environments for people with any form of disability. We work with architects, designers, builders, surveyors and agencies to ensure we incorporate all the wheelchair access and universal design requirements into the developments.
Access for persons with a disability involves numerous moving parts and distinct phases – all equally important in the development of built environments.
Engaging our disability access consulting solutions early in your development project will result in the most cost-effective accessible design, and smooth collaboration with the architect, builders and other role players.
SPECIALISTS IN DISABILITY ACCESS
OUR disability ACCESS CONSULTANCY service COVERS:
The power of inclusion
In NSW, about one in five people live with a disability. Limitations on their means to communicate, move freely or achieve self-care activities are worsened by not being able to comfortably access built infrastructure, and this is avoidable.
With a significant number of people in NSW affected by disability, and using mobility aids such as a wheelchair or walker, disabled access is a key consideration in planning, construction, and development projects to ensure that all environments are accessible to everyone.
At Town Planning & Access, we have in-depth and up-to-date knowledge of all the accessibility requirements under the anti-discrimination laws, work health and safety legislation, and building control regulations to offer turnkey disability access consulting solutions tailored to your project.
Guided by the DDA
The Federal Disability Discrimination Act 1922 (DDA) protects all people in Australia against discrimination based on disability.
Discrimination happens when people with disability – or their relatives, friends, and carers – are treated less fairly than people without disability; they are discriminated against.
The DDA expects every area and facility open to the public to be equally accessible to everyone. If people without disability can enter and use an area, so should people with disability, with equal ease. These areas include libraries, places of worship, government offices, health care facilities, restaurants, or shops.
access architecture
accessibility for all
Many of us think of access architecture only in terms of people with disabilities that restrict their movement. But the DDA defines disability as physical, intellectual, psychiatric, sensory, neurological, and learning related.
In providing easy access for all people with different disabilities, the built environment should include elements such as wheelchair-accessible toilets, lift buttons within reach, tactile and audible lift signals, and accessible information to all users of the premises.
Although these regulations sound hard and fast, the DDA does not require you to make access provisions if this will cause major difficulties or excessive costs to you or your organisation.
Engaging professionals in understanding what your options are and whether you comply with the regulations as set out in the DDA is imperative to the success of your project.
Let us partner with you
Our expert disability access consultants have years of industry experience offering achievable disabled access solutions for our clients. We are well versed in what’s required by legislation to ensure equal access to built environments.
Contact our disability access consultants team today to start the conversation.
SYDNEY
3/55 Pyrmont Bridge Rd
Pyrmont, NSW 2009
brisbane
76-84 Brunswick St
Fortitude Valley, QLD 4006
