Persimmon Homes Accessibility Ratings
A guide to mobility adaptations in our homes.
It's crucial that your new home works perfectly for you and your needs.
Our new homes are built in line with Approved Document M Volume 1: Access to and use of dwellings. Read on to find out what each rating means when it comes to accessibility requirements in Persimmon Homes.
M4(1) Category 1: Visitable dwellings
Requirement M4(1) will be met when a new home makes reasonable provision for most people, including wheelchair users, to approach and enter the dwelling and to access habitable rooms and sanitary facilities on the entrance storey. Reasonable provision is made if the home complies with all of the following.
A. Within the curtilage of the dwelling or the building containing the dwelling, it is possible to approach and gain access to the dwelling.
B. It is possible to gain access to the dwelling, or the building containing the dwelling, from the most likely point of alighting from a car.
C. A disabled person who is able to walk is able to visit any dwelling in a building containing one or more dwellings.
D. Visitors can access and use the habitable rooms and a WC within the entrance storey of the dwelling (or the principal storey where the entrance storey does not contain a habitable room).
E. Where the habitable rooms and the WC are located on the entrance storey, access between them is step free.
F. Wall-mounted switches and socket outlets in habitable rooms are reasonably accessible to people who have reduced reach.
M4(2) Category 2: Accessible and Adaptable dwellings
M4(2) is an optional requirement that will be met when a new home makes reasonable provision for most people to access the home and incorporates features that make it potentially suitable for a wide range of occupants, including older people, those with reduced mobility and some wheelchair users. Reasonable provision is made if the home complies with all of the following
A. Within the curtilage of the dwelling, or of the building containing the dwelling, it is possible to approach and gain step-free access to the dwelling and to any associated parking space and communal facilities intended for the occupants to use.
B. There is step-free access to the WC and other accommodation within the entrance storey, and to any associated private outdoor space directly connected to the entrance storey.
C. A wide range of people, including older and disabled people and some wheelchair users, are able to use the accommodation and its sanitary facilities
D. Features are provided to enable common adaptations to be carried out in future to increase the accessibility and functionality of the dwelling
E. Wall-mounted switches, socket outlets and other controls are reasonably accessible to people who have reduced reach.
M4(3) Category 3: Wheelchair user dwellings
M4(3) is an optional requirement that will be met where a new home makes reasonable provision, either at completion or at a point following completion, for a wheelchair user to live in the home and use any associated private outdoor space, parking and communal facilities that may be provided for the use of the occupants. Reasonable provision is made if the home complies with all of the following.
A. Within the curtilage of the dwelling or of the building containing the dwelling, a wheelchair user can approach and gain step-free access to every private entrance to the dwelling and to every associated private outdoor space, parking space and communal facility for occupants' use.
B. Access to the WC and other accommodation within the entrance storey is step-free and the dwelling is designed to have the potential for step-free access to all other parts.
C. There is sufficient internal space to make accommodation within the dwelling suitable for a wheelchair user.
D. The dwelling is wheelchair adaptable such that key parts of the accommodation, including sanitary facilities and kitchens, could be easily altered to meet the needs of a wheelchair user or, where required by a local planning authority, the dwelling is wheelchair accessible.
E. Wall-mounted switches, controls and socket outlets are accessible to people who have reduced reach.
Each development has different mobility provisions depending on planning. If you have any questions or would like to know more about our accessibility, please speak to the sales advisor at your chosen development.
