I dont Believe It

[tommy.irene]

Mum with disabled daughter campaigns for wheelchair ramp - and gets £40,000 'slalom' eyesore Clare Lally begged her local council for improved access for wheelchair-bound Katie, seven, after the council gave them a home at the top of three flights of stairs. What she got turned her relief to shock...

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Mum with disabled daughter campaigns for wheelchair ramp - and gets £40,000 'slalom' eyesore

uk.news.yahoo.com

Clare Lally begged her local council for improved access for wheelchair-bound Katie, seven, after the council gave them a home at the top of three flights..

[kiss*my*pixel]

I saw that on a discussion programme yesterday, Tommy! What a complete and utter disaster, not to mention insulting. Totally ridiculous. I so hope the council will rectify it soon!

[5129frederick]

All that would have been required would have been to remove the steps, excavate a path level with the road, and install a hoist/lift to the front door, constructing a secondary set of steps near the house for non-disabled people.  Or is that too easy? (roll eyes)

[bankhaunter]

Why on earth did they give her that home in the first place, surely it couldn't have been the only one available?

[5129frederick]

And a lovely front lawn, ruined!

[joe_bloggs*]

When she's not using it the local skateboarders could put it to good use?

[mr-expresso]

If the poor girl miraculously regains the use of her legs..... the 'believers' will be able to form an orderly queue to her front door...

[tommy.irene]

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@joe_bloggs* wrote:

When she's not using it the local skateboarders could put it to good use?

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If you read the story ..the skateboarders use it now.. I wonder if it would have been easier around the back of the house.. as Banks said moving her would have been cheaper..

[rose2008-2008]

OMG OMG HOW awful LOOKING is that??????????????.

[renomarvinm]

This is just a guess, but they may have had some issues with using mechanical contrivances, weather, zoning, or some weird obscure laws, etc - I just don't know for sure.  Either way, having decided that they required a physical path up to the front door of that residence, there is the matter of gradient.  They probably have rules about that too - you know, one must not have a gradient steeper than 1 in 15, or something (I don't know the numbers), and then the only way to achieve THAT was to do what they did.  All in all, the effects ARE rather startling - They remind me of the serving line at a particularly awful fast food franchise.

[5129frederick]

Sorry - poor taste.  1/10 for wit.