Curriculum specific
Learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities (LLDD)
Is the College general FE or specialist with residential accommodation?
How many students on role, and average daily attendance?
If residential, what is the residential / day student split?
What is the age range?
What are the natures of the students' disabilities?
What proportion are wheelchair users?
What is the student-staff ratio for activities and proportion of admin staff?
What is the student class group size?
What educational facilities are required? (ICT/ classrooms/ media/ performing arts/ music/ sport/ workshop/ horticulture/ homecare/ work related learning)
Are there College mainstream activities the Department can use? (avoiding duplication)
What support facilities are required? (physio/ occupational therapies/ medical centre)
Additional facilities? (hydrotherapy pool/ multi-sensory rooms)
Any specific, specialist equipment to be accommodated?
Are facilities available to the Community, and when?
What level of security is required between public/ private zones?
Provision for large meeting space?
Provision for staff rest room/ meetings?
If residential –
How are meals and social needs to be met?
What opportunities are there to create a 'home from home' environment?
Key considerations:
Inclusive ethos
De-institutionalised design
Live-learn environment
Sheltered arrival/ departure, parking for minibus & MPV's, waiting for cars & taxis
Security zones if 'vulnerable young adult' site
Clear way-finding
Enabling technology
Appropriate surface materials (durability & longetivity vs sacrificial & easily replaced)
Hoists/ wheelchair charging/ equipment storage
Toileting/ changing/ laundry/ utility/ clinical waste disposal
Large lifts if vertical circulation
Flexibility, future ready planning and construction methodology
If residential –
Care Standards and security
Identity and homely environment
