It’s so big Clare can’t see the bottom of it from her home and it has proved an attraction to local youths, who are using it as a skateboard run. Clare says she has asked for a gate to be put on the bottom to keep the pests away but the council have refused. West Dunbartonshire Council say they have not done final costings on the ramp at the home in Duntocher, Clydebank. But a professional building firm has estimated the cost of construction at £40,600.
Clare said: “A couple of times my neighbour has phoned me and said there’s boys on the ramp. The ones I caught last week were urinating on it. Another time they were on it with their skateboards. There must have been a better solution, like building a lift to bring Katie up in.” Clare, 33, and partner Derek Steel, 37, say the council reassured them over access when they moved in – but then said planning regulations would not permit a ramp.
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Clare added: “We got them to relent but now they are saying they won’t give us a gate. You have got to think they could have gone about the whole project in a more sensible way.” Katie suffers from bulbar palsy after a difficult birth when she and twin Holly arrived prematurely. Police in Clydebank said community officers will be paying extra attention to the area over the coming weeks. A council spokesman insisted the family had at first said they could manage the steps at the property. He added: “This proved not to be the case. As they were existing tenants, it was the council’s duty to make the necessary adaptations. This led to the installation of the wheelchair ramp as requested by the family.”
3 comments:
It's called a Payback Ramp. Mess with us long enough to make us build you a ramp? Fine. Here's a ramp. Now sit do..(nevermind) and shut up.
If I were a taxpayer there, I'd be calling for a recall election of the officials who so foolishly spent my money. There had to have been a better way.
I find it hard to believe that the mother and her "Partner" didn't take a measuring tape outside and
measure how high above the sidewalk their front door was and do some on-line research to see what the
minimum slope is required by code for wheelchair access.
The other option I think, would be to dig a wide enough level pathway to the front door landing and
install a lift. But that would have required a retaining wall to hold back the rest of the front yard.
The reason there are so many landings on a wheelchair ramp that switches back and forth, is to
allow the person in the chair or the person pushing the chair a safe place to rest or stop.
Reading the comments she's made to the media, she sounds like laws, codes, and policies shouldn't
apply to her.
Hey Clare Lally, shouldn't you "Know Before You Go?"
Looks like you did no research into the installation of a wheelchair ramp.
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