Question 17105 — people with disabilities

Summary

Ms. Laure de La Raudière draws the attention of the Minister to the Minister of Territorial Cohesion and Relations with Local Authorities, responsible for cities and housing, on the subject of the application of Persons with Reduced Mobility (PRM) standards in the field of construction of new housing. Today, more than 12 million people are affected by a disability, whether it be motor impairment, organic, intellectual or mental. For example, 2 to 3% of the population uses a wheelchair and 850,000 people suffer from reduced mobility. To make life easier for French people affected by a disability, a body of standards has been developed over the years to define the accessibility criteria applicable to the construction of new individual housing authorized to accommodate people with reduced mobility. This corpus of rules is better known as PMR standards. However, certain standards, although they make sense in principle, lead to grotesque situations when they are applied in the field. For example, article 11 of the decree of December 24, 2015 relating to “accessibility to disabled people of collective residential buildings and individual houses during their construction”, specifies that windows which can be opened from the inside, must be located at a height of between 0.90 m and 1.30 m from the ground and maneuverable in both the “standing” and “sitting” positions. The layout of certain rooms, however, meets constraints which do not always allow the placement of an opening window according to the criteria of the PMR standard. This is particularly the case for cramped spaces, such as a toilet or a bathroom. Therefore, and in order to obtain “People with reduced mobility” approval, housing is built with fixed windows when these cannot be positioned according to the PMR standard. This is all the more incomprehensible given that not all disabilities deprive people of the same difficulties in daily mobility and that these people, moreover, often live with able-bodied people who are able to open a window placed at height. standard, excluding PMR standard. She therefore wants to know whether it would not be wise to change the PMR standard for windows.

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