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Summary

Service View
- This guide was designed to take the most accessible route from Lakeside Arts Centre, to the Portland Building, finishing at the Trent Building. There are some areas along the route that some may find difficult due to dropped kerbs, uneven surfaces and some narrow pavements. The length of the route is approximately 320m (0.2 miles).
Building View

This route starts at the Lakeside Arts Centre.
At the entrance to the building turn right to face the wide even pathway in front.
The pathway is tarmac.
Continue for 10m before reaching 3 bollards crossing the pathway.
The bollards contrast visually with the floor.
The width between the first two bollards is 238m.
The width between the next two bollards is 190cm.
The bollards have visual identification banding at the top.
Between the bollards there is an electrical cover that may cause a trip hazard.
There is bench seating with no armrests to the left of the bollards.
Continue for 9m along the pathway with a left hand camber.
After 9m the tarmac colour changes slightly and there is a covered grid crossing the pathway.
The pathway narrows to 150cm+ at this point.
Continue up a slight slope with even surfaces for 22m.
After 22m the sloped incline increases to moderate for 17m.
At the top of the slope the walkway levels off.
Ahead will be the Keighton Hill - East Drive crossroads.
The tarmac colour changes from black to red and there is a small threshold to overcome.

Turn left at the crossroads to face the pavement.
The pavement is tarmac and there is a dropped kerb to overcome.
The width of the pavement is 150cm+ with a slight camber from left to right.
After 1m the colour of the tarmac changes and there is a slight lip crossing the pathway.
Continue up a slight slope for 20m.
There are some uneven surfaces due to wear of the tarmac.
After 20m there is bench seating without armrest to the left opposite the UN41 bus stop.
The pavement widens here for 3m.
After 3m the pavement narrows again to 150cm+ and there is a small lip in the tarmac.
Continue for 17m up the slight slope with uneven surfaces to reach more bench seating to the left.
The bench seating is opposite the UN40 bus stop and has no armrests.
Continue past the bench seating and the last bust stop (opposite) for 20m.
After 20m the signage for East Drive will be on the left.
Opposite, to the right, is the junction for Portland Hill - East Drive.
Continue up the slight slope for 36m where there is a bike and e-scooter storage.
At the time of the survey e-scooters where parked across the pathway.
There is more bench seating here with no armrests.
Continue for 2m past the bike storage.
The accessible entrance to the Portland Building will be directly opposite, across the road.

Continue past the Portland Building up a slight slope for 12m.
The pavement is tarmac with a width of 150cm+.
After 12m there is bench seating with armrests to the left.
The pathway has a steep camber to the right due to a dropped kerb with blister tactile paving.
The crossing is used to cross over East Drive to access the Portland Building.
There is a slight colour change on the tarmac at the crossing point.
Continue past the crossing up a slight slope for 38m.
The pavement widens and there is bench seating to the left and a crossing to the right.
The bench seating has no armrests.
The crossing is used to access Portland Coffee Co.
The crossing has blister tactile paving, the tarmac changes from black to red and there are bollards at the crossing.
The bollards have a width of 198cm and contrast visually with the floor.
The bollards have visual indicators at the top.
After 1m the pavement narrows to 150cm+.
Continue for 18m where there is blister tactile paving and a dropped kerb.
The dropped kerb causes a steep slope to the right in the pavement.
To the left of the tactile paving is the stepped access to the Trent Building (Lower Ground Floor).

Continue past the stepped access to Trent Building (Lower Ground Floor).
The pavement is tarmac.
After 6m there is a steep drop on the right of the kerb due to wear of the road beneath.
Continue for 10m up a slight slope.
The pathway changes from tarmac to slabbed paving and levels off.
There width of the path narrows to 135cm, there are some uneven surfaces due to the way the slabs are laid.
After 4m turn left.
Continue for 5m then turn right.
Continue for 10m and turn right.
Continue for 5m, the paving changes colour and is now white.
The east entrance to the Trent Building is on the left.