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Changing rooms: buildings that can be adapted
Relatively easy and less expensive to adapt	Relatively difficult and more expensive to adapt
Accommodation on one level - no vertical circulation	Changes in floor level within the same floor
Spacious layout with rooms separately approached from the hall/landing	Restricted layout
Communal entrances	Flats with separate rather than communal entrances
Internal stud partitions and timber floors	Concrete buildings
Large bathrooms (or space to enlarge the existing bathroom)	Small bathroom or no scope for enlargement
Large walk-in cupboards	Restricted areas around the property - for construction of ramps, scooter storage, extensions and so on
	Flats without lifts or with inadequate lifts
Examples
Properties with two bedrooms or more	Bedsits and one-bedroom flats
Ground floor flats and bungalows	Maisonettes
	Flats in converted houses (such as tall terraced houses)
	Medium-rise flats without lifts

Enabling costs: how they alter with increasing disability
Disability level	Needs	One-storey		Two-storey
		Adaptable properties %	Typical average cost £	Adaptable properties %	Typical average cost £
None	Safety	100	£175	100	£325
Modest	Stairlift or possibly improved communal lift	95	£2000 +	96	£5000 +
Moderate	Accessible entrances and horizontal circulation and shower suitable for a wheelchair	89	£4750 +	83	£6750 +
High	Vertical lift and bathroom suitable for electric wheelchair, fixed hoist bedroom to bathroom	61	£5000 +	31	£10,000 +