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Assessing Lifetime Home Standards: Housing and the Living Environment

School of Planning, Architecture & Civil Engineering,. Clíona Rooney, Verity Faith, Dr. K. Hadjri & Dr C.Craig. Assessing Lifetime Home Standards: Housing and the Living Environment. Clíona Rooney 2 nd Year PhD Candidate Prague 30 th May 2012.

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  1. School of Planning, Architecture & Civil Engineering, Clíona Rooney, Verity Faith, Dr. K. Hadjri & Dr C.Craig Assessing Lifetime Home Standards: Housing and the Living Environment Clíona Rooney 2nd Year PhD Candidate Prague 30th May 2012

  2. Assessing Lifetime Home Standards: Housing and the living environment • Background • Aims • Methodology • Context • Existing Literature • Initial Findings • Concluding Discussion Contents

  3. Assessing Lifetime Home Standards: Housing and the living environment Research Problem: Is there scope to Improve the Lifetime Home Standards? ……..What are the Lifetime Home Standards? Background

  4. Assessing Lifetime Home Standards: Housing and the living environment Background AccessInside the Home Fixtures and Fittings Set of 16 Criteria

  5. Assessing Lifetime Home Standards: Housing and the living environment Access Car Parking Spaces Access from car park Entrances Stairs and Lifts Background

  6. Assessing Lifetime Home Standards: Housing and the living environment Inside the Home Door widths Turning circles Entrance level bed Background

  7. Assessing Lifetime Home Standards: Housing and the living environment Fixtures and Fittings Window Specifications Switches and Sockets Background

  8. Assessing Lifetime Home Standards: Housing and the living environment Aim: Understand the challengesbehind implementing the standards by understanding the attitudes and expectations of the stakeholders involved. Secondary aim: To investigate if there is scope to make changes to the standards. Overall aim: Provide an insight into how the standards can be improved Aims

  9. Assessing Lifetime Home Standards: Housing and the living environment • Literature Review • Semi-structured Interviews with housing • association representatives Methodology

  10. Assessing Lifetime Home Standards: Housing and the living environment It is mandatory in NI to build all public housing to the LTHS Context Facts -13,834 km² -1,799,392 population

  11. Assessing Lifetime Home Standards: Housing and the living environment Positive findings • Long term costs are • reduced • Future adaptations • are easier • Occupants can remain • at home for longer Is there scope to improve the Lifetime Home Standards? Existing Literature

  12. Assessing Lifetime Home Standards: Housing and the living environment Negative findings • Do not meet the needs • of everyone • Focus solely on • mobility challenges • Minimum standards Is there scope to improve the Lifetime Home Standards? Existing Literature

  13. Assessing Lifetime Home Standards: Housing and the living environment Negative findings • They conflict with • space standards • Hinder creativity • It will take decades • for their impact to • be felt Is there scope to improve the Lifetime Home Standards? Existing Literature

  14. Assessing Lifetime Home Standards: Housing and the living environment Examples of Lifetime Homes Existing Literature

  15. Assessing Lifetime Home Standards: Housing and the living environment • Interviews were analysed using thematic analysis • NVivo • 7 themes for discussion Interviews

  16. Benefits of LTHS • Reaction of the Housing Associations towards the • standards • Attitudes of society and the occupants towards the • standards Assessing Lifetime Home Standards: Housing and the living environment Seven Themes Initial Findings

  17. Attitudes towards visual impairments • Attitudes towards user Involvement • Attitudes towards supplementary guidelines • Ways in which the standards could be improved Assessing Lifetime Home Standards: Housing and the living environment Seven Themes Initial Findings

  18. Improved access for wheelchair users • Enable future adaptations • Appreciation of extra space and w.c. from all home • users • Cost Benefits Assessing Lifetime Home Standards: Housing and the living environment Benefits of LTHS Initial Findings

  19. Mandatory • Satisfied with the standards • Do not include existing homes • Restrictive • They ignore individuality Assessing Lifetime Home Standards: Housing and the living environment Reaction of housing associations towards LTHS Initial Findings

  20. Satisfaction with new home • Unaware of the standards • Unaffected by the standards • No Post Occupancy Evaluations (POEs) Assessing Lifetime Home Standards: Housing and the living environment Attitudes of the occupants towards LTHS Initial Findings

  21. Surveys • Collaboration with the end user • Over involvement of the user Assessing Lifetime Home Standards: Housing and the living environment Attitudes towards user involvement Initial Findings

  22. Add-on features • Not structural • Consultation with Occupational Therapist (OT) Assessing Lifetime Home Standards: Housing and the living environment Attitudes towards Impairments Initial Findings

  23. Assessing Lifetime Home Standards: Housing and the living environment Supplementary guidelines Initial Findings

  24. More space • Fine tuning • Further reduce the need for adaptations Assessing Lifetime Home Standards: Housing and the living environment Ways in which the standards could be improved Initial Findings

  25. Do standards hinder creativity? • How can we improve the designers’ awareness of guidelines? Assessing Lifetime Home Standards: Housing and the living environment Concluding Discussion

  26. Assessing Lifetime Home Standards: Housing and the living environment Thank You Clíona Rooney 2nd Year PhD Candidate IFA Conference Prague 30th May 2012

  27. Assessing Lifetime Home Standards: Housing and the living environment • Literature Review • Barlow, J. & Venables, T. (2004). ‘Will Technological Innovation Create the True Lifetime Home’? Housing Studies, 19 (5), 795-810. • Brewerton, J. & Darton, D. (1997). Designing Lifetime Homes. York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation. • Carrol, C. Cowans, J. & Darton, D. (1999). Meeting Part M and designing Lifetime Homes. York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation. • Department for Communities and Local Government, Department of Health and Department for Work and Pensions. (2008). Lifetime Homes, Lifetime Neighbourhoods A National Strategy for Housing in an Ageing Society. Yorkshire: Communities and Local Government Publications. • Dewsbury, G.A. & Edge, H.M. (2000, June). Designing the Home to Meet the Needs of Tomorrow… Today: Deconstructing and rebuilding the home for life. In: ENHR conference. 26-30 June, ENHR: Gavle Sweden. • Donnelly, M. (2009, July). Lifetime Adaptable Homes Seminar. (Paper Presented at the Centre for Excellence in Universal Design, Seminar: Lifetime Homes in Policy and Practice, Dublin). Retrieved July 26, 2006, from http://accessit.nda.ie/newsandevents/eventsarchive/seminarquotlifetimehomesinpolicyamppracticequot Selected References

  28. Assessing Lifetime Home Standards: Housing and the living environment • Literature Review • Evans, S. (2009). ‘A response to Baroness Andrews, ‘Lifetime homes, lifetimes neighbourhoods – developing a housing strategy for our ageing population’. Policy and Politics, 36, pp. 151-154. • Goodridge, C. (2006). Accessible London: achieving an inclusive environment Lifetime Homes (PDF), London: Greater London Authority. Retrived October 19, 2010, from http://legacy.london.gov.uk/mayor/strategies/sds/docs/lifetime-homes.pdf. • Hanson, J. (2001). From Sheltered Housing to Lifetime Homes: an inclusive approach to housing. In: Winters, S, ed.2001. Lifetime Housing in Europe. Leuven: KatholiekeUnversiteitLeuven. pp. 35-57. • Harding, E. (2007). Towards Lifetime Neighbourhoods: Designing sustainable communitiesfor all a discussion paper. Yorkshire: Community and local Government Publications. • Holland, C. & Peace, S. (2001). Inclusive housing. In S.Peace, & C. Holland eds.2001. Inclusive Housing in an ageing society, Innovative approaches. Bristol: The Policy Press. pp.235-261. • Imrie, R. (2006). ‘Independent lives and the relevance of Lifetime homes’. Disability & Society, 4, pp.359-374. Selected References

  29. Assessing Lifetime Home Standards: Housing and the living environment Images BBL architects llP. (2012). Wallbank Court Birmingham. Retrieved May 13th, 2012, from http://www.bblb-architects.co.uk/index.php/projects/housing/social-housing/wallbank-road/ Brewerton, J. & Darton, D. (1997). Designing Lifetime Homes. York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation. P. 11 Brewerton, J. & Darton, D. (1997). Designing Lifetime Homes. York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation. P. 15 Granmore. (2012). Switches & Sockets. Retrieved May 13th, 2012, from http://granmoresuspendedceilings.com/switches-and-sockets.html IFA.(2012). IFA Global Conference on Ageing 28th May- 1st June 2012 Prague. Retrieved May 13th, 2012, from http://www.ifa2012.com/tourist-info/welcome-to-prague Selected References

  30. Assessing Lifetime Home Standards: Housing and the living environment Images Quest. (2012). Quest quality electrical supplies and technology limited socket. Retrieved May 13th, 2012, from http://www.questelectrical.co.uk The National Achieves.(2012). Lifetime Homes Diagram. Retrieved May 13th, 2012, from http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20100413151441/http://communities.gov.uk/documents/housing/jpg/LifetimeHomesDiagram.jpg MSMR (2012). Msmr Alice Street London SE1. Retrieved May 13th, 2012, from http://www.msmrarchitects.co.uk/?page=new-build&project=alice-street&image=1180 The Mail. (2009). Architects challenged to Design Lifetime Homes, Lifetime Neighbourhoods. Retrieved May 13th, 2012, from http://www.britishhomesawards.com/09/awards09.asp Selected References

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