Access to our properties
We are committed to improving access to our properties. Over the last year, we have introduced new signage with accessibility in mind, and carried out various structural improvements.

Signage
The 'Front of House' project that we have begun implementing this year has been designed using accessible fonts, colour schemes and pictures. This, careful positioning of the signs and improved way-finding for people with sight impairment, limited literacy or whose first language is not English, make it easier for people to find the shortest route to where they are are going.

Where planning permission and finances permitted, we undertook a series of building works last year, as follows:

Archway Resource Centre
A wider external door for 1B with slope each side to allow easier access for wheelchairs, plus handrails installed in 1B to help people use stairs.

Green Fish Resource Centre
Automatic entrance doors, new handrail to meet DDA specifications, colour differentiation scheme throughout the building to help with visual impairment, loop system for one meeting room and a voice enunciation system in the lift.

Roundhay Road Resource Centre
New automated entrance doors to both public and staff entrances.

Picton Street Centre
Installation of a bell for use by wheelchair or pushchair users and tarmacing of the car park give better access for disabled users.

Investment in socially excluded areas
We measure the level of social exclusion in areas where we have purchased properties, using the government’s index of Multiple Deprivation 2004.

As we have made no new purchases this year and the index has not changed the table remains the same as in the 2004 annual report .

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