Consultation Proposals for amendment of Technical Booklet Guidance to Part R (Access to and use of buildings) – Changing Places Toilets Provision

Summary

Changing Places toilet (CPT) facilities meet the needs of people with profound and multiple learning disabilities as well as people with other physical disabilities such as spinal injuries, muscular dystrophy and multiple sclerosis.

The Department of Finance carried out a public consultation from 28 July to 20 October 2021 on proposed amendments to Technical Booklet R (Access to and use of buildings) to make provision for Changing Places Toilets.

The amendments will introduce criteria for the provision of Changing Places Toilets in certain in-scope buildings, depending on their type and size in terms of footprint or capacity when larger buildings, commonly visited by the public, are newly built or where a building is formed by a material change of use.

The consultation received a total of 97 responses. The original consultation documents, the final Regulatory Impact Assessment and a summary of the consultation responses and the Department’s post consultation actions can be accessed below.

The Department post consultation actions, taking account of the above consultation documents, have informed the Department’s new Amendments Technical Booklet AMD 8.

An awareness briefing has been prepared and a link to the presentation can be found below