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Network Rail
Summary:
The Design Guidance for Public Toilets in Managed Stations is intended to promote a common design approach based on the principle of ‘putting passengers first’ across Network Rail's Managed Stations portfolio.
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Publication date:
2020
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Keywods:
DesignPublic ToiletsTransport
Type:
Design GuideStandards and Guidance

Author/s:
Imran Nazerali, Gail Ramster, Jo-Anne Bichard
Summary:
In this update to Publicly Accessible Toilets: An Inclusive Design Guide, we show how future toilets can be designed to be more hygienic, and also more accessible and inclusive, as a critical part of public health infrastructure.
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Publication date:
2021
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Keywods:
Covid-19DesignInclusionPublic Toilets
Type:
Design Guide

Author/s:
Changing Places Consortium
Summary:
This guide aims to provide readers with the practical guidance on the design and management of a Changing Places toilet, as well as an understanding of why they are needed and who is likely to benefit from them.
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Keywods:
Changing PlacesDesignDisability
Type:
Design Guide

Author/s:
Susan Cunningham
Summary:
Public In-Conveniences is a brief and easy-to-use guide for organisations which have a special interest in the provision of “away from home” toilets.
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Publication date:
2015
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Keywods:
DesignPublic Toilets
Type:
Design Guide

Author/s:
Nowhere to Go (University of Newcastle)
Summary:
A best practice guide to ‘Improving Access to Toilets in Northumberland’. The guide seeks to highlight to people, but particularly organisations such as galleries, cafes, pubs, supermarkets, ways they can easily and cheaply make their toilets more accessible well as the importance of Changing Places toilets. Available in accessible formats.
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Publication date:
2018
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Keywods:
AccessibilityDesignDisability
Type:
Design Guide

Author/s:
Juliette Hanson; Jo-Anne Bichard; Clara Greed
Summary:
This Accessible Toilet Design Resource, part of VivaCity 2020, is concerned primarily with the design of the accessible toilet cubicle that should be provided for customer or public use wherever there is standard toilet provision.
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Publication date:
2007
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Keywods:
AccessibilityDesignDisability
Type:
Design Guide

Author/s:
Jo-Anne Bichard; Gail Ramster
Summary:
This guide has been developed from an inclusive design philosophy for providers of publicly accessible toilets, designers, architects and built environment professionals to help make design decisions about their facilities.
File:
Publicly_Accissible_Toilets_1.pdf 3.75 MB
Publication date:
2011
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Keywods:
AccessibilityDesignInclusion
Type:
Design Guide

Author/s:
Hertfordshire Constabulary Crime Prevention Design Service; British Toilet Association
Summary:
This Guide is aimed at the Police Service, Architects, Local Authorities and any other individual or organisation involved with: building new toilet facilities; the refurbishment of existing facilities; dealing with problem sites.
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Publication date:
2010
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Keywods:
Crime & Anti-social BehaviourDesignPublic Toilets
Type:
Design Guide

Author/s:
Around the Toilet
Summary:
This website aims to show that the design of toilets is both fascinating and worthy of further exploration, but crucially that toilets provide a gateway to a much more holistic approach to making better places and spaces.
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Publication date:
2017
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Keywods:
DesignInclusionPublic Toilets
Type:
Design Guide