Accessibility Audits
The Lambert Smith Hampton Accessibility Audit Service provides clients with the assurance that access to services within their property has been given due consideration under the Act.
In order to remove disability discrimination wherever possible, the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, as amended in 2005, serves to ensure that businesses and service providers take reasonable steps to allow disabled citizens to participate as equal members of society.
For property owners and occupiers, the 2005 amendments have put the onus upon the landlord to make disability-related alterations to property as deemed reasonable under the Act’s ‘duty of reasonable adjustment’.
Properties which have been let, are to be let or are held as commonhold, are covered by the duty of reasonable adjustment.
Failure to meet the requirements of the Disability Discrimination Act can be costly, time-consuming and can attract adverse publicity in the trade and business media.