Good Practice for Providing Reasonable Access to the Physical Built Environment for the Disabled

Project Information

REASONABLEACCESS

Grant agreement ID: 6623

Start date 1 January 2005

End date 30 September 2006

Funded under

• Policy support: Specific activities covering wider field of research under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006.

Total cost € 499 908,00

EU contribution € 499 908,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS
United Kingdom

Objective

The proposal addresses a pan European strategic need to determine the policy, technical expression and business case implications concerning the question of reasonableness as applied to the provision of access and accommodation to disabled persons in the physical built environment. The objectives of the proposed work follow a sequence that commences at the source of the reasonableness issue, that is, the policy decision to ensure equal opportunities for all and the ensuing legislative instruments, embodied in national legislations and EC directives relating to discrimination with respect to persons with disability. The ultimate goal, as in all matters dealing with discrimination against persons with disability should be to provide an output that will benefit the services that are enjoyed by persons with disability. In this case it is envisaged that the final deliverable of the work will be a "Good Practice Guidance" dealing with reasonableness of access and accommodation and a document that puts forward the Business Case for reasonable provision. The former will deal with the technical expression of reasonableness in the physical built environment, while the latter will deal with the socio-economic realities of the issue.

Fields of science

• social sciences › sociology › social issues › social inequalities

Keywords

• Access to the Physical Built Environment
• Business Case
• Policy
• Reasonable access for the Disabled
• Technical Expression

Programme(s)

• FP6-POLICIES - Policy support: Specific activities covering wider field of research under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006.

Topic(s)

• POLICIES-2.4 - Quality of life issues relating to handicapped/disabled people

Call for proposal

FP6-2003-SSP-3
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Funding Scheme

SSA - Specific Support Action

Coordinator

UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Woodhouse Lane ; LEEDS ; United Kingdom
• Total cost: No data

Participants (1)

UNIVERSITY OF MALTA

Malta

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Msida MSD 06 ; MSIDA
• Total cost: No data