Students' Union UCL is committed to providing equality of access to our customers with disabilities. We will endeavour to meet your requirements and make your visit as enjoyable as possible. This guide is to inform everyone coming to Phineas bar about what we can offer people with specific requirements.
Location & Contact
Location
Phineas is located on the 3rd floor of Students' Union UCL's building at 25 Gordon Street, London, WC1H 0AY.
Venue Managers
If you have any access requirements, would like more information or have a question that is not answered on this page, please contact one of the venue managers:
Joanna Pulford
Venues & Entertainment Manager
or
James Bingham
Deputy Venues Manager
Getting to Phineas Bar
Parking & travel
The building is situated on Gordon Street. The nearest mainline railway station is Euston and the closest underground is Euston Square. More details on public transport are available on UCL's website.
There is no dedicated parking.
Blue Badge Parking
Where can I park using my blue badge?
The blue badge permit is available to people with a specific disability or impairment. Parts of the Borough of Camden have their own guidelines on use of the blue badge due to acute traffic and parking pressures with fewer parking spaces available than other areas. The areas do offer their own schemes and have agreed that if a blue badge holder parks in a pay-and-display bay or meter bay they will get one hour’s free parking added to the time for which payment has been made, provided that the minimum payment required for that particular bay has been made.
Camden’s alternate scheme is described in the green badge scheme section.
Blue badge holders may park without charge or time limit in:
- Blue badge parking bays (including those within the green badge area);
- Residents’ parking bays (except in the green badge area);
- Parking meters and pay-and-display bays, including out of order meters (except in the green badge area); and
- Designated parking spaces and areas reserved for blue badge holders only
Blue Badge holders may park for up to 3 hours on a single or double yellow line (providing that the clock is also on display) except:
- Where there is a loading ban in operation;
- In the green badge area; and
- In the other central London Boroughs.
Holders may not park in:
Suspended bays, Dedicated bays, Traders’ bays, Business bays, Doctors’ bays, Taxi stand bays, Motorcycle bays, Hospital bays
For more information view the latest blue badge scheme regulations and information from the Department of Transport here.
Green Badge permits
The green badge scheme runs in conjunction with blue badge permits, click here for more information. If you have a blue badge you can still park in the green badge zone, but only in the blue badge parking bays, or in shared use loading/disabled bays (between 6.30pm and 8.30am daily and all day Sunday).
If you hold both a green and blue badge you can also park in green badge bays and shared use loading/disabled bays, as well as residents’, metered and pay-and-display bays, provided they are not suspended.
You can view a map of the green badge zone here.
Getting into Phineas
All customers access Phineas by passing through the ground floor reception area of 25 Gordon Street and then going up to the 3rd floor, where the bar is located. There is no level access to the bar from street level. Entrance is via three steps or a permanent steel ramp, which has a width of approximately 105cm.
At the top of the ramp/steps there are double-width main doors (120cm), which are fixed open during opening hours, and an internal glass door (width 150cm), which opens outwards.
Once inside the main entrance, customers bear right through two sets of wooden doors (width 110cm), which are fixed open, to the stairwell, where there is a customer lift. The lift is a standard lift for public use (door width 90cm) and has controls within reach of a patron in a wheelchair.
Phineas is located on level 3 and upon exiting the lift there are two sets of outward-opening doors (one set of which is fixed open during trading hours, width 140cm) leading into the bar.
Inside Phineas is level access.
Services & Facilities
Accessible toilet
There are accessible toilets located across the landing in both the female and male toilets. The doors are 83cm wide. There is a gender-neutral toilet located one floor up, on level 4.
Smoking
The smoking area is located at street level, outside the main entrance.
Evacuation Policy
All our security staff are trained to assist customers with disabilities in the event of an emergency. There is no specific emergency or refuge point within Phineas Bar itself.