Sheltered housing definition

Approved document B, Fire Safety, Volume 2, Buildings other than dwellinghouses (2019 edition), suggests that sheltered housing:

'Includes two or more dwellings in the same building or on adjacent sites, designed
and constructed as residential accommodation for vulnerable or elderly people who receive, or will receive, a support service.'

The previous edition of the approved document gave a slightly different definition, suggesting that sheltered housing included:

• two or more dwellings in the same building;
• two or more dwellings on adjacent sites

where those dwellings are, in each case, designed and constructed for the purpose of providing residential accommodation for vulnerable or elderly people who receive, or who are to receive, a support service.

The Scottish Building Standards, Part I. Technical Handbook – Domestic, Appendix A Defined Terms, defines a sheltered housing complex as:

• ‘two or more dwellings in the same building or
• two or more dwellings on adjacent sites

where those dwellings are, in each case, designed and constructed for the purpose of providing residential accommodation for people who receive, or who are to receive, a support service; and, for these purposes, “support service” has the same meaning as in the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001.’

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• Care Standards Act 2000.
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• Curtilage.
• Definition of institution.
• Dwellinghouse.
• Flat definition.
• Hostel.
• Household.
• Residential definition.
• Room for residential purposes.
• Shop definition.
• Specialist accommodation for older people.
• Supported housing.
• Terraced house.
• Types of building.
• Use class.