Wheelchair Ramp

[emmie]

do you think they were doing a slalom

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2558461/Rampant-lunacy-Council-pays-40-000-fit-10-level-60m-eyesore-home-disabled-girl-needed-simple-ramp.html

[emmie]

going on councils it probably does, ours has just spent 130k on artwork for their new offices, despite cutting every imaginable service for the tenants.

[Ann]

You couldn't make it up!! Ridiculous decision by the council and so unsightly, bet the mother feels really embarrassed.

[chrissa1]

I agree it is a stupid, monstrosity. Could they not cover it in plastic hedge material, then at least it would be green.

[emmie]

for a moment there i thought it was just me that thought it odd.

[black_cat51]

i don't listen to JV but can anyone tell me if they asked the family if they had been offered a chance to move?

[black_cat51]

and no emiie, it's not just you, in fact i think you are probably in the vast majority

[jackthehat]

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2012/02/9140/5/2/1

[emmie]

JTH, that looks quite sensible, and more in the way of ones i have seen.
i haven't read the blurb, but i will in a moment.
by the way the mother asked the council for a gate at the end of the ramp, and was refused on the grounds of health and safety, as the gate would swing outwards, at least i think that what it said.

[emmie]

are you saying that it is Scottish law on what can be built. If so surely it would have been better the family were moved to a more accessible home.

[jackthehat]

That is the Scottish Building Regulations and any ramp *must* be built in accordance with those Regulations (in England we would have to make sure that a ramp conforms to both Part K and Part M, of the Bldg. Regs.).

It would probably have been more sensible to have thought about providing the family with alternative accommodation.

[emmie]

it would have done i am sure.