Join access consultant Caroline Lewis for a live webinar exploring the technical principles of designing inclusive and accessible high streets.

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This session will examine key design considerations, current regulatory frameworks, and best practice approaches to ensure accessibility is embedded in every stage of urban planning and development. This course will benefit anyone interested in creating more inclusive high streets, including urban planners, architects, local authorities, and NRAC members and membership applicants.

Inclusive Environments series

This session is part of CAE’s Inclusive Environments webinar series, which explores the technical elements of inclusive design in the built environment as well as discussing best practice in the field. Our webinars cover a diverse range of topics, giving you practical tools and forward-thinking strategies to embed inclusive design at every stage of your work.

The session covers key design considerations, regulatory frameworks, and best practice approaches to embedding accessibility in urban planning and development. Part of CAE’s Inclusive Environments webinar series, this event is ideal for urban planners, architects, local authorities, and NRAC members and applicants interested in creating more inclusive public spaces.

About our speaker

Caroline Lewis is an NRAC-accredited access consultant with 25 years’ experience providing inclusive design advice across built, external, and transport environments. Caroline delivers high-level consultancy informed by a strong policy and research expertise. Much of her work focuses on stakeholder involvement, engagement, and facilitation, conveying technical information into clear, practical guidance.

An accomplished trainer, she has designed and delivered programmes for diverse audiences, including CAE’s award-winning Pathways Academy.

Caroline is part of the British Standards Institute’s Consumer and Public Interest Network (BSI CPIN), and sits on the committee which prepares the BS8300 ‘Design of an accessible and inclusive built environment’ as well as Fire Risk Assessment and Competence Frameworks. She also serves as Vice-President of the Access Association and as a nominated expert on European and international standards committees for inclusive design.