VOLUME 1 HUMAN SETTLEMENT PLANNING AND ... - CSIR

GUIDELINES FOR HUMAN SETTLEMENT PLANNING AND DESIGNTable 5.5.3:Quantitative guidelines - Educational facilities (continued)Facility Location Access Size and Use capacitiesdimensions and thresholdsAdult learningcentresAdult learning centres are not usually provided as stand-alone facilities and generally“double up” with some other form of facility (i.e. a community centre, hall, school etc).No figures have therefore been given as the most efficient provision is through doublingup where existing space is adapted for adult learning classes.Table 5.5.4:Quantitative guidelines - Health facilitiesFacility Location Access Size and Use capacitiesdimensions and thresholdsMobile clinicMobile facilitieswhich move fromcommunity tocommunity -therefore there isno fixed location.Must be accessibleby foot.Maximum walkingdistance: 1 km.These are selfcontainedunits.Space is, however,required to parkand operate theclinic: this can bedone from a localpark, communitycentre, church, etc.A mobile facilitywill serve apopulation of about5 000 people.12Chapter 5.5Public facilities