This guide provides good practice guidance for architects, designers and housing practitioners in the development of inclusive domestic environments that meet the requirements of people with sight loss. The emphasis is on maximising functional vision and minimising barriers and risk by achieving specific design and specification requirements. It is based on research commissioned by Thomas Pocklington Trust into the needs, experiences, and choices for people with sight loss within their home environment.

Features / Benefits
Detailed design guidance on layout and features of homes for people with sight loss, including older people
Gives detailed guidance on lighting for homes of people with sight loss
Covers inclusive design principles for lifetime homes

Readership
Architects, architectural technicians, housebuilders, housing associations, local authorities, building services engineers, planners, occupational therapists and other social services professionals, rehabilitation workers, home improvement agencies

Contents

Introduction
 Designing for people with sight loss
 Section 1: External areas
 Public and communal areas outside plot boundaries
 Private areas within plot boundaries for houses or blocks of flats
 Section 2: Functional spaces
 Entrances to individual dwellings
 Hallways and circulation areas
 Living areas
 Kitchens
 Bathrooms and WCs
 Bedrooms
 Section 3: General services and components
 Windows
 Heating systems and general plumbing
 Electrical (excluding lighting)
 Internal lighting
 Surface finishes and their contrasts
 Section 4: Communal areas
 Communal facilities
 Appendices
 A: Contrast requirements
 B: Table of recommended task lighting illuminances
 C: Table of recommended illuminances at the floor of each room
 D: Glossary
 References and further reading
 Index