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Resident participation in the evaluation of external accessibility requirements in housing estates

Gillian Kane (Gillian Kane is a Research and Development Officer, Centre for Research in Property and Planning, School of the Built Environment at the University of Ulster at Jordanstown, Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland.)
George Heaney (George Heaney is a Senior Lecturer, Centre for Research in Property and Planning, in the School of the Built Environment at the University of Ulster at Jordanstown, Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland.)
Stanley McGreal (Stanley McGreal is a Professor and Director of the Centre for Research in Property and Planning, in the School of the Built Environment at the University of Ulster at Jordanstown, Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland.)

Facilities

ISSN: 0263-2772

Article publication date: 1 January 2000

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Abstract

Accessibility is now a major issue in the design and maintenance of housing estates. This paper considers the reasons why this issue has emerged and the main obstacles to accessibility encountered by housing estate residents. Focusing on a mature estate in South Belfast, Northern Ireland, investigates the obstacles to accessibility experienced by the residents in order to produce a hierarchy of impacts. Residents were surveyed on a number of issues including location, roads and pavements, transportation, level change, wayfinding, safety and security, and public areas. It was discovered that obstacles relating to wayfinding created the greatest problems for residents; however, attitudes towards accessibility varied according to the age of the respondent. The study concludes that accessibility should be introduced estate‐by‐estate dependent on a resident profile in order to maximise resources and advocates the adoption of a co‐ordinated interagency approach.

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Kane, G., Heaney, G. and McGreal, S. (2000), "Resident participation in the evaluation of external accessibility requirements in housing estates", Facilities, Vol. 18 No. 1/2, pp. 45-55. https://doi.org/10.1108/02632770010312169

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