Posted By Steve j B Happy Friday to you all...... Not stictly a safety question but does anyone know how many disabled car parking spaces should be provided for an office environment. i.e. is there a formula to use based upon square metres of the existing carpark or is it more of a ratio. The company in question has 130 people who use the offices and only 56 parking bays, so parking is a bit tight anyway!!!!!!! The question is how may of these 56 should be allocated for disabled parking. Oh Yeah and there are currently no disabled drivers employed by the company so these bays would be for visitors to the premises. Cheers Steve

Posted By Jason Warren Have just spoken with our DDA specialist who gave me a copy of Designing for Accessibility by the Centre for Accessible Environments. In this document it states: Where the number of disabled employees is known: One space for each known disabled employee plus one space or 2% of the total capacity (whichever is greater) for visiting disabled motorists. or Where the number of disabled employees is not known: At least one space or 5% of the total parking capacity, whichever is the greater. On this basis you would need to provide 2% of the total capacity which is 1.12 spaces. You now need to consider the amount of visitors you get and if there aren't many then you will probably get away with rounding this down to 1 space. However, if you have alot of visitors or know of any disabled visitors who visit regularly then I would advise you round upto 2. Hope this is useful. kind Regards, J. Warren

Posted By Shaun Brennan Steve the last poster was right you assess how many disabled you have in the workforce and allocate accordingly. the bay sizes are as follows: Lenght 5200mm width 3300mm This is to allow the car, if needs be to be parked at an angle so the door can be opened for the wheelcahir to safely put at the side of the car, if indeed they are a wheelchair user. i hope this helps Bugsy