The European Concept For Accessibility 2003

4.1.4 Technical Planning

After the meeting with residents has been held, their opinions need to be integrated into the general priorities. Once this is done, work can begin on planning the interventions and, subsequently, deciding the practical procedures for carrying them out. The following procedures are recommended:

• Integration of resident needs within the existing urban maintenance plan.

• Integration of resident needs within new projects and services to be carried out during the current term of office.

• Analysing the accessibility and sustainability of services and including Design for All criteria in internal quality assessment systems (improving the quality of services in terms of usability, participation and overall quality).

• Integration of other social agencies within projects , whether they be private or other governmental bodies.

• Carry out citizen awareness and participation campaigns (some problems of accessibility are created by people themselves. For example, badly-parked cars or other obstacles in the public highway).

• Normative development, in other words, the development of internal norms and regulations that modify or improve the present state of affairs.

• Creation of a specific budgetary item for those aspects of accessibility that cannot be addressed within regular procedures.