Leisure & Community - Access Audits and Consultancy

Enjoyment and user friendliness are usually specific requirements for the users of this category of building. Safety is another important factor. It should not be assumed that a person with physical disability, whether ambulant or in a wheelchair, or visually or hearing impaired people cannot take part in active pastimes, or enjoy a full community social life.

In addition to physical adjustment, organisational issues such as publications and literature being in alternative format, or attitudinal ways involving attentiveness and understanding by staff and organisers, can overcome obstacles.

Projects in this category on which Access Staintons have carried out access audits and/or acting as access consultants on specific issues include:

Old Trafford Football Stadium for Manchester United FC

Hillsborough Football Stadium for Sheffield Wednesday FC

The Hawthorns Football Stadium for West Bromwich Albion FC

Loftus Road Football Stadium for Queens Park Rangers FC

St Andrew's Football Stadium for Birmingham City FC

Vicarage Road Stadium for Watford FC

Moss Rose Stadium for Macclesfield Town FC

Molineux Stadium for Wolverhampton Wanderers FC

Kenilworth Stadium for Luton Town FC

Field Mill Ground for Mansfield Town FC

York Street Ground, Boston United FC

Fulford Golf Club, York

Gosforth Conservative Club, Gosforth

Swimming Pool & Leisure Centres for Worcester City Council

Sports Centre & Indoor Pool for Scarborough Borough Council

54 Playgrounds for Scarborough Borough Council

Play Centres for Scarborough Borough Council

The Lowry Entertainment Complex, Manchester

Redcar Racecourse

Whitby Leisure Centre

Filey Evron Centre

Community Centres for Worcester City Council

Arts & Leisure Centre for Stevenage Leisure Ltd

Stevenage Swimming Centre for Stevenage Leisure Ltd

Park and Sailing Centre, Golf Centre and Leisure Centres on behalf of Stevenage Leisure Ltd

Public Parks and Bowling Greens for Worcester City Council

Peasholm Park, Scarborough

Locke Park, Redcar

Community Centres for Stevenage Borough Council

St. Augustine Millennium Hall, Cleveland

Harrogate Hydro Leisure, Harrogate (Civic Trust Awards)

York Theatre Royal, York (York Tourism Bureau Access For All Awards)

Clifford Village Hall

Almscliffe Village Hall

Bashall Eaves Village Hall

Pontefract Family Centre

I.O.U. Theatre, Halifax

Harrogate Theatre, Harrogate