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Revised Lifetime Homes Standard published
5 July 2010
The revisions to the Lifetime Homes criteria have been introduced to achieve a higher level of practicability for volume developers in meeting the requirements of the Code for Sustainable Homes. The revisions will also facilitate the adoption of Lifetime Homes design as a requirement for all future publicly funded housing developments.
The proposed revisions were published for consultation in December 2009 and were available for public comment until March 2010. We received responses from a cross-section of interests including industry, professional bodies, disability organisations public bodies and individuals.
The resulting revised Lifetime Homes Standard was published on 5th July 2010 and is generally applicable to all schemes proceeding independently of the Code for Sustainable Homes. Schemes proceeding within the Code for Sustainable Homes should continue to use the 16 Design Criteria (up to 5 July) employed in the 2009 section of the Code. More information about implementation can be found on our Implementation of Revisions page.
For further information regarding Code Registration or for any queries relating to applicability under the Code for Sustainable Homes, contact the Building Research Establishment (BRE).
“We are grateful to all those who participated on the Technical Advisery Group for the invaluable contribution they made to producing this updated Lifetime Homes Standard. We hope to see many volume developers meeting the revised requirements to meet the assessment criteria for the Code for Sustainable Homes.” Andy Shipley, Lifetime Homes Co-ordinator.
We have produced a 'quick print' version of the revised criteria that can be downloaded for printing.