BS 6465-4:2010 Sanitary installations. Code of practice for the provision of public toilets
This part of BS 6465 provides recommendations and guidance intended for those responsible for the surveying, assessing, planning, commissioning, designing, managing and use of public toilets. The recommendations and guidance in this standard are intended to cover public toilet provision for the full range of users and in all locations including towns and cities, rural areas and villages and in relation to main transport routes and termini.
The recommendations in this part of BS 6465 are applicable to new public toilet installations. They are also applicable to the upgrading of existing public toilets. However, it is accepted that it might not be possible to upgrade existing toilets to be in accordance with all the recommendations in this standard, for example for physical or economic reasons.
It is important to note that it is not intended that any public toilet be closed just because it is not entirely in accordance with this standard, as any public toilet provision is considered to be better than none.
This part of BS 6465 gives recommendations on the location, numbers, sitting, design and management of public toilets. It is applicable to the provision of new facilities and to the retention and refurbishment of existing facilities.
This standard is applicable to the following types of public toilet facilities:
• Municipal public on-street toilets
• Off-street publicly available toilets (e.g. in shopping malls)
• Automatic public conveniences (APCs)
• Street urinals
• Facilities for disabled people, from the point of view of scale of provision and location
• Baby changing and ancillary toilet facilities.
Contents of BS 6465-4:
Foreword
Introduction
Section 1: General
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
Section 2: Public toilet strategy
4 Strategy contents
5 Liaison and exchange of information
6 Survey of existing toilet provision
7 Identifying user groups and user needs
8 Public toilet spatial strategy
9 Types of toilet provision
10 Equality and meeting the needs of different user groups
11 Determining numerical levels of public toilet provision
Section 3: Siting of toilets
12 Principles of siting of public toilets at the local area level
13 Relationship to public transport, parking and footpaths
14 Principles of site analysis
15 Access to and circulation around the building
16 Signage and information
Section 4: Design of toilet blocks
17 External design
18 Security
19 Internal design
Section 5: Management of toilet blocks
20 Management and staffing
21 Cleaning
22 Maintenance
Annexes
Bibliography
List of figures
List of tables
Other standards in this series include:
BS 6465-1:2006+Amendment 1:2009
Sanitary installations. Code of practice for the design of sanitary facilities and
scales of provision of sanitary and associated appliances
Sanitary installations. Code of practice for space requirements for sanitary appliances
Sanitary installations. Code of practice for the selection, installation and maintenance of sanitary and associated appliances
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