25/26-305 Buninyong Town Hall - DDA Compliant Access

Summary and scope

Replace handrails on front steps with compliant steel handrails. The historic photographs confirmthe existing steel pipe handrails are not original. As built there were no handrails but these arerequired to allow the continued use of the front stairs.- Remove concrete gate posts to widen entrance to path. These posts appear to date from the 1920s orlater, probably contemporary with the concrete addition to the Town Hall.- Remove existing asphalt path and rock edging and replace with new walkway to AS1428.1compliant gradients. The existing path was built to provide a link between Learmonth Street andthe rear car park, as well as the side door. It is not considered significant.- Construct new pergola over section of walkway.- Remove existing side door, widen opening and install new wider accessible door. Install new steelframed awning roof over new accessible entrance to provide shelter and to identify the accessibleentrance. Required to provide an accessible entrance to the building, as discussed above.- Internal wall removal – store rooms 1 and 2 and passage to form new lobby space, retain wall nib athall end. The existing corridor from the escape door in the hall to the west door is a narrow space,less than the width of the new external door and too narrow to serve as the entrance to the hall. Thedoor in the south wall of the corridor appears to be original. The doors to the two small storerooms,and the partition walls are probably later additions as there is a chimney breast in the south wallsuggesting this was originally an office space which was divided into a corridor and storage roomswhen the south toilet addition was added to the original building.- Supper Room – Changes to all doors, door D5 reverse swing to provide latch side clearance, D6replace both leaves of non original doors with new wide leaf and narrow leaf, D7 replace doubledoors with new wide single door and fixed panel, D8 remove single door, widen opening andinstall new wide and narrow pair of doors. Alter servery opening to raise head to match adjacentdoor head height.- Lift to stage – demolish west steps to stage, widen door D3 opening to suit 1020 wide door, cut backstage to and install platform lift.