Social Sustainability Toolkit: inclusive design

The Social Sustainability Toolkit: inclusive design was commissioned by the South West Regional Development Agency, funded by Cornwall Council and developed as a collaboration between Sensory Trust and the Eden Project. It provides a practical guide to inclusive design for built environment professionals and all those involved in the commissioning, planning, design, construction and evaluation of capital build projects. The toolkit is a requirement of European-funded capital build programmes in Cornwall.

The Toolkit integrates inclusive design in all stages of the design and construction process for capital builds, from initial plans through to completion and building use. It aims to make a complex set of requirements as straightforward as possible. Working through it will help fulfil statutory obligations and ensure a high quality, fully accessible capital build. Rather than providing general guidance, the Toolkit uses tools that dovetail with existing planning and design processes, for example as part of applications for planning and building control approval. It also includes a crib list, not intended as a checklist but to highlight the issues that need to be thought about and to give a means of recording decisions throughout the whole sequence from initial concept to completion and handover.

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