Bathroom regulations in Scotland

Bathroom design regulations

There is a lot to think about when either re-designing your bathroom, removing your ground floor bathroom or having a completely new bathroom in your home/extension.

If you are designing a new ground floor bathroom and there is not one already on the ground floor, then this will need to be accessible in terms of the regulations. The main criteria for this is 1100mm space clear of any door swing (typically the door will open outward to reduce size of bathroom), 800mm x 1100mm in front of WC, 700mm x 800mm in front of wash hand basin and 800mm x 800mm in front of bath/shower.

In a nutshell, you can’t remove a ground floor bathroom without providing an equivalent somewhere else on the same level.

Visit the gov.uk website where you can view the building standards technical handbook for more information (link below)

3.12 Sanitary facilities - Building standards technical handbook 2020: domestic - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)