Special Needs & Accessibility

If you are disabled, or travelling with someone who is, holiday homes can offer an ideal solution. Several manufacturers - for example Lissett and Pemberton - now make specially adapted holiday homes.  These have carefully thought-out additions, particularly for wheelchair users, including:

• electrically operated lifts to the entrance
• wide doorways and wheelchair stores
• adapted kitchens with specialist fittings
• wheelchair accessible bathrooms with grab rails
• shower seats and sensor taps
• low level power points and light switches
• panoramic windows for better viewing

National Accessible Scheme
As with hotels, there is a National Accessible Scheme Standard for caravan and holiday parks covering three types of impairment - mobility, hearing and visual.  The NCC encourages its member parks to be part of the scheme - see Find a Park.

Each category is represented by a symbol.  To learn more about the symbols or for more information about the scheme, visit the enjoyEngland website.