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Call for the Government to regulate National Construction Code ... | Australian Network For Universal Housing DesignAn accord of 800 affliction advocates and ethical designers are calling for binding affliction admission in new homes.
The accord says Australia charge do bigger as a attestant to the UN Convention on the Rights of Bodies with Disabilities, and they accept submitted a academic angle for a change to architecture regulations.
Margaret Ward, an artist and the convenor of the Australian Network for Universal Apartment Design, said the accord has alleged for minimum admission to be included in the Australian architecture code, now alleged the National Architecture Code.
"There's an appraisal that 91 per cent of dwellings congenital will accept addition either appointment or alive in it that will crave [disability] admission in the lifetime of that dwelling," Ms Ward said.
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Update on Building Codes Board – Australian Network for Universal ... | Australian Network For Universal Housing DesignShe said it would alone add $1,000 to the amount of architecture to accept one admission and one bath wheelchair accessible, and some added corridors and doorways.
Robbie Carr was a carpenter who in his 20s began bottomward his accoutrement and was anon diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis.
His mother, Heather Roman, said she struggled to acquisition a home his wheelchair could enter.
"That has been so hard. We approved to acquisition houses that had advanced doors, were low to the arena or had a ramp. [It was] about impossible," Ms Roman said.
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Housing design guidelines – Centre for Universal Design Australia | Australian Network For Universal Housing DesignMr Carr, now 37, said he could not appointment the homes of best of his ancestors associates and friends.
"It absolutely sucks because I appetite to go there obviously, [but they] don't accept admission to wheelchairs," he said. "They don't anticipate about us."
Kristin Brookfield, from the Apartment Industry Association, said regulations were not the answer.
"We [would] abundant adopt seeing a autonomous approach," she said.
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About LHA - Livable Housing Australia | Australian Network For Universal Housing Design"Our alternative is that we brainwash our associates and we brainwash consumers, home buyers and the affliction association itself, on what are some simple solutions that could be included in homes, and absolution that customer choose."
Ms Brookfield said accessibility for bodies with disabilities should not be binding because "it goes to the affair of the one admeasurement doesn't fit all".
"The affliction of addition in a wheelchair is absolutely altered to somebody who is blind," she said.
Topics: disabilities, housing-industry, housing, multiple-sclerosis, australia
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