Equality Impact Assessment: Building Control
Areas of work:
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Building Control
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- Access for disabled people
- Dangerous Structures and public safety
- Demolition
- Building Control - applications
- Street naming and numbering register
- Derelict properties - public safety
- Health and Safety - construction regulations
- Energy - efficiency advice and assessment
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Linked documents and information:
Building Act
http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/planningandbuilding/circular0220111.
Building Regulations
http://www.communities.gov.uk/planningandbuilding/buildingregulations/
Approved Documents (A-P)
http://www.carlisle.gov.uk/planning_and_buildings/building_control.aspx
Fee Document
http://www.carlisle.gov.uk/planning_and_buildings/building_control.aspx
Evidence
- Customer satisfaction surveys with every decision and with
every completion certificate
- Customer feedback forms to Fire Service with every fire safety
completion certificate
- Shop mobility surveys
- Ten meetings per year with
Access Group
- Latest GovMetric user satisfaction
reports
Screening for impacts
Does the policy/service
impact on the following?
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Equality Impact Screening
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Impact Yes/No?
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Positive impact?
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Negative impact?
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Key decision
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Ethnicity
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No evidence
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Disability
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Y
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Motorised scooters and wheelchairs are
available through Shopmobility to aid independent access within
Carlisle city centre.
Access group meetings held ten times per
years.
Part M of the Building Regulations (where it
applies) is there to assist access to and within buildings and
ensure that reasonable facilities are provided for all.
Setting up a web area within Carlisle City
Council’s web site for The Access group and their activities and
campaigns and information
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(Staff) Some parts of the Building Control
Surveyors working environment are not suitable for people with
limited mobility – access to heights via ladders or scaffolding and
working at depths - foundations and manholes. Visual or hearing
impairments could result in Health and Safety issues involving
spatial awareness on site.
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| Gender |
No evidence |
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| Sexual orientation |
No evidence
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Age
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Y |
Motorised scooters and wheelchairs are available
through Shopmobility to aid independent access within Carlisle city
centre. |
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Religion or belief
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No evidence |
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Rurality
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No evidence |
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| Health |
Y |
Motorised scooters and wheelchairs are
available through Shopmobility to aid independent access within
Carlisle city centre
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| Financial Inclusion |
Y |
Potential links to affordable development; low cost housing
etc |
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Human rights
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No evidence |
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| Other (Generic) |
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If you consider there is either no impact or no negative
impact, please give reasons:
Equality actions identified are within the Equality Impact
Assessment Action Plan below.