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Changing Places Checklist: Planning & Design

Accessible toilets can only be officially registered as official Changing Places if they meet certain criteria relating to size, design, and equipment. So, we’ve developed a handy checklist to help plan your project and ensure that what you ultimately build will be registered.

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1. Planning Your Changing Places Toilet

  • There is clear, level access to the facility ( or plans
    to install suitable ramped access)
  • You have allocated a minimum of 12 sqm for your proposed Changing Places toilet
  • Internal ceiling height is 2,400mm (min)
  • The facility is publicly accessible
  • The facility can be clearly signposted to

2. Changing Places Environment

  • Doorway is at least 1,000mm wide
  • 2,000mm x 1,800mm (min) clear manoeuvring space.
  • 1,000mm (min) clear space either side of the toilet
  • Hoist provides full room coverage
  • Installation of anti-slip flooring
  • Sufficient visual contrast between grab rails and walls (in accordance with light reflectance value (LRV) guidance in Approved Document M and BS8300)

3. Changing Places Equipment

Changing Bench

  • Adult-sized (1,800mm x 800mm size with minimum 200kg safe working load)
  • Height-adjustable (300mm–1,000mm range)
  • Wall-mounted or free-standing
  • Accessible wide paper roll dispenser (installed at 800mm–1,000mm height).

Ceiling Track Hoist

  • X-Y (or H-frame) system
  • Safe working load of 200kg (min)
  • Handset controls with accessible charge point
  • Emergency stop and hoist lowering functions
  • Note: Carers typically “bring a sling”, so there’s no requirement to provide a sling with your hoist system

Peninsular Toilet

  • 480mm toilet seat height
  • Shelf for colostomy bags (installed at 950mm in height and at least 400mm wide)
  • Note: Avoid seat styles with a gap at the front

Hand Wash Facilities

  • Height-adjustable basin (580mm–1,030mm range)
  • Lever mixer taps
  • Pressure-sensitive safety override system
  • Soap dispenser (800mm–1,000mm height)
  • Paper towel dispenser (wall-mounted at 800mm– 1,000mm height)

Grab Rails

  • Drop-down rails positioned 320mm either side of peninsular toilet
  • All fixed grab rails to be 600mm long (min) with 50mm–60mm surface clearance
  • Fixed rail on interior door (900mm height)

Bins

  • General waste bin
  • Large sanitary bin for adult-sized continence pads

Privacy Screen

  • Wall-mounted or free-standing
  • Retractable, to avoid obstructing other equipment

Emergency Alarm

  • Two red pull cords (one accessible from the toilet, the other near the entrance)
  • Pull cords to reach down to 100mm from the floor
  • Accessible alarm reset (800mm–1,000mm height)

Mirror

  • Full length (min 600 x 400mm)

Clothing Hooks

  • Positioned at two heights (1,050mm & 1,400mm)

Shower (Optional)

  • Located next to the changing bench
  • Detachable shower head (1,200–1,400mm height)
  • Shower deck installed to enable level-access
  • Accessible shower controls (750mm–1,000mm height)
  • Note: Showers are recommended in managed buildings, such as leisure centres

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Call 07729 224 738 or email hello@riseadapt.co.uk
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To learn more about Changing Places, why not download our brochure or attend one of our monthly online seminars.

Call: 07729 224 738
email: hello@riseadapt.co.uk
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To learn more about Changing Places, why not download our brochure or attend one of our monthly online seminars.

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