Accessibility

Event: Soul Strip

General information

Contact name

Iliana Contos

Contact number

0452524937

Travel instructions

Pitt Street is located on the Lygon Street Tram line, serviced by the number 1 and 6 trams. Lygon Street tram stops are not ramp accessed stops. The closest ramp accessed tram stop to Take Care is Nicholson Street, stop 21 on the 96 tram line which is 950 meters away and requires crossing 4 streets, 3 of which has pedestrian lights. The closest train station is Jewell Station which is 1.7km away. Take Care has two permanently fixed bicycle lock-up bars at the front of the building.

Entry instructions

We are actively working to improve wheelchair access to our building. Currently, our ground floor (which includes the Big Room where Soul Strip takes place) is accessed via 4 steps at the front of the building / main entrance but can also be accessed via two back doors at the rear of the building where a portable ramp is available. Our backdoor is accessed via a concrete laneway, through our rear courtyard. The laneway is entirely smooth excepting a cobblestone driveway connecting the street to the lane. Our back doorway is 84cm wide and our bi-folding backdoorway is 2 meters wide. Our ground floor has a wheelchair accessible bathroom that is 1.9m x 3.3m in size with a doorway of 86cm wide and includes a Caroma Care 800 toilet with backrest, sink height of 80cm and two grab rails. Doorways to our Big Room are 80cm wide. Our narrowest ground floor corridor is 1m wide.

After entry instructions

Take Care’s front entrance has 4 concrete steps up into the front ground level foyer. The Big Room (where Soul Strip takes place) is through the hallway towards the back of the building. Follow the signs. Take Care’s ground floor back entrance has 1 step up into the ground floor of the building, with portable ramp available. All Take Care doors are hinged doors with handles at 90cm or higher. Ground Floor Door Widths Street Front Double Doors: 84cm when one is open or 172.5cm when both are open. Take Care Front Doorway: 89cm wide Big Room Doorways: 80cm Main Bathroom Doorway: 77.5cm Accessible Bathroom Doorway: 86cm wide Back Doorway (with Ramp Option): 84cm Back Bifold Doorway (with ramp option) 2 meters wide

Toilet location

All our bathrooms are gender neutral and are stocked with tampons, pads and first aid kits. Our main bathroom on the ground floor has two cubicles and communal hand basins. Our wheelchair accessible bathroom on the ground floor is a private bathroom with its own hand basin.

Accessible parking

Pitt Street has one accessible parking bay, one 30 minute parking bay, six 5 hour parking bays, three loading zones, seventeen unlimited parking pays and one 1 hour parking bay. Parks can be hard to come by on Pitt Street and we recommend Loyola Avenue as a secondary option for parking. No street crossing is required on the walk from Loyola Avenue to Take Care. Parking inspectors do patrol the area.