scope:

This covers the following classes of accommodation. The exact types of room are listed in section 3.

Station staff:

• Group management office suites

• Station staff accommodation

• Ticket office suites

• Station control rooms

• Ancillary accommodation

Revenue Staff:

• Revenue management office suites

• Revenue staff office suites

Train staff:

• Train management office suites

• Train staff office suites

• Train staff booking on points

Service Control Centres

Ancillary accommodation

The Station Planning standard 1-371 covers station staff accommodation only, and addresses the following for each room:

• Location within the station

• General requirements

• Size

This document has a wider scope to encompass train staff accommodation, plus the following additional details for all rooms:

•Finishes

• Furniture

• Fixtures

• Communications and I.T. equipment

Purpose

This guidance informs the planning and development requirements of all schemes relating to operational staff accommodation in new and existing London Underground (LU) locations.

The aim of this document is to provide a comprehensive set of best practice guidelines for all operational accommodation projects, it is not mandatory except where Category 1 or 5 Standards are referenced.

This guidance is not retrospective.

Overall this means that:

• The information within this document cannot be mandated on a Supplier by London Underground via the Contract between London Underground and a Supplier or by any other arrangement that London Underground has with a Supplier.

• Neither London Underground or Suppliers are bound to provide any of the assets, facilities, fixtures or fittings described in this document unless they are also required to provide them by, either Category 1 Standards or the specific Contract between London Underground and a Supplier.

• Neither London Underground or Suppliers are bound to follow any of the processes described in this document unless they are also required to provide them by, either Category 1 Standards or the specific Contract between London Underground and a Supplier.

• The information within this document must not be used by London Underground or a Supplier to raise or moderate expectations of delivery by a Supplier or London Underground over and above what is required in the specific Contract between London Underground and a Supplier.

• Any new information within this issued version of the document is irrelevant to any activity that precedes the issue date of this version.