Changing Places at Wembley! Wembley Stadium is now even more accessible to all, at all levels…
The National Stadium has opened its new Changing Places toilet, ensuring it can accommodate every visitor’s personal hygiene needs. With equipment supplied and installed by Total Hygiene, the UK’s leading disabled toileting solutions provider, the facility is the result of consultation with Level Playing Field and Attitude is All, who campaign for optimum accessibility for disabled sports and music fans.
Conveniently located on Level 1 internal concourse Block 104, the Stadium’s Changing Places toilet provides more space than a standard ‘disabled’ toilet, and additional equipment of a height adjustable adult-sized changing bench, a height adjustable wash basin, hoist, peninsular toilet and privacy screen.
Over 2.5m people visit Wembley Stadium each year, 1 in 6 of the British population is disabled, so it is vital that, as a national venue, we provide appropriate facilities for everyone, explained Wembley Stadium senior operations manager Peter Swordy. We did have a similar hygiene room, but it was small and it and the equipment was not felt to be adequate.
The new Changing Places toilet is the result of two existing toilets being integrated into one, giving the space for a wheelchair user and their carer to manoeuvre easily, and appropriate equipment for their toileting needs.
Under the 2013 version of Building Regulations Approved Document M, it is now ‘desirable’ for public buildings to include a hygiene room or Changing Places toilet; it is also ‘good practice’ under BS8300:2009.
Total Hygiene, as Britain’s biggest supplier of accessible toilet equipment, is the leading source for design advice, supply, installation, commissioning and servicing of hygiene rooms and Changing Places toilets, and the only company in the sector that can provide all those elements in-house. It is also official sponsor of the Changing Places campaign, which has seen over 450 of the facilities opened at venues across the UK.
