Changing Places at the Dundrum Town Centre
The Changing Places at the Dundrum Town Centre is the first full facility in any Irish shopping center.
It is designed to provide people with mobility restrictions a comfortable and dignified bathroom experience when visiting the centre.
The Changing Places at the Dundrum Town Centre was officially opened at 7th December by Don Nugent and “key management” of Dundrum Town Centre. Sync Living provided strategic advice on the key equipment and the space required in line with Changing Places guidelines.
About the Dundrum Town Centre
Dundrum Town Centre is a shopping centre located in Dundrum, Dublin. It opened in March 2005 and it has over 120 stores and over 45 places to eat, with new shops and restaurants opening all the time.
With approximately 18 million visitors per year, Dundrum Town Centre was awarded the Most Family Friendly Shopping Centre for three years running as a result of its extensive services and facilities to make shopping with the family a more enjoyable experience.
Dundrum Town Centre also provides a lot of facilities for people with mobility restrictions.
Accessible premises
- Shopmobility- This service provides a range of motorised and manual wheelchairs that can be hired free of charge to make getting around the centre easier. Shopmobility is available for anyone who needs help with mobility – young or old, whether the disability or injury is temporary or permanent
- Disabled parking spaces with easy access to the centre
- Accessible toilets
- Lift access
Changing Places at the Dundrum Town Centre provides an accessible place for individuals with additional care needs of this shopping centre.
About the Changing Places at the Dundrum Town Centre
The Changing Places at Dundrum Town Centre will satisfy the needs of many people with disabilities. It will offer a safe, comfortable, private area for individuals with more complex care needs. The equipment available makes trips to Dundrum Town Centre much easier for these individuals and their family members/carers. The Changing Places at Dundrum Town Centre makes it more accessible and provides a facility that no other shopping in Ireland offers.
Dundrum Town Centre has lots of customers with more complex care needs. Having listened to the feedback from these individuals and their carers, the management decided to install the changing places facility.
The Changing Places at Dundrum Town Centre is located on Level 1 next to River Island.
To access these toilets, you must use the National Key System.
Don Nugent further comments on the Changing Places at the Dundrum Town Centre:
The staff at Dundrum Town Centre are extremely proud that we can provide a Changing Places Facility for our customers. We are showing that we have taken a huge step in illustrating our ongoing commitment to being an inclusive scheme. We can give our customers a more positive experience which will encourage them to come back time and time again.
About the Changing Places at the Dundrum Town Centre and Sync Living
Andrew Smyth, Sync Living Changing Places Specialist, is satisfied with the results of the Changing Places at the Dundrum Town Centre.
Andrew commented on the Changing Places at the Dundrum Town Centre that:
Dundrum Town Centre is Ireland’s largest shopping centre with over 169 tenants, almost 140,000 m² square metres of floor space, and over 3,400 car parking spaces. It is located just south of the town centre of Dundrum. The centre management are to be commended on investing in this excellent Changing Places facility in their pursuit to be accessible and inclusive.
It was a pleasure to guide from early stage planning through to completion in line with Changing Places / BS8300:2018 guidelines. The facility provides high quality products and finishes in keeping with the ethos of the centre. Now a greater percentage of the 18million visitors to the centre per annum who live with a disability can enjoy the Dundrum Town Centre experience without having concerns in relation to toileting / changing amenities. It my hope that other shopping centres and public venues throughout Ireland will follow Dundrum Town Centres’ lead.
If you would like to know more about how to make your building accessible for people with physical or mental impairment and their carers, feel free to get in touch with Andrew at andrew@syncliving.co.uk.
Don’t forget to check our previous case study about the Changing Places facility that we installed and supplied at Belfast City Hall.
