4.—(1) Regulation 3 shall not apply where the planning authority to which the application is made is satisfied that it relates solely to the carrying out of operations–
(a)in the curtilage or for the alteration or extension of a dwellinghouse, other than the erection of a dwellinghouse, for the purpose of providing means of access to or within the dwellinghouse for a disabled person who resides or proposes to reside in that dwellinghouse, or of providing facilities designed to secure that person’s greater safety, health or comfort; or
(b)for the purpose of providing means of access for disabled persons to or within a building or premises to which members of the public are admitted.
(2) In this regulation, “disabled person” has the same meaning as in section 1 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995(1).