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]

wonder if they have changed it...

[Mamyalynne]

There was a thread on this yesterday, it quite frankly beggars belief doesn't it?

[tonyav]

Absolute madness imo, bet you'd be knackered by the time you got to the front door after pushing a wheelchair up that thing.

[tonyav]

Yes there was, Mamya, here it is.
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1314660.html

[badge1515]

Nightmare if you were bursting for a wee

[emmie]

sorry if doubled up, bonkers isn't it, almost laughable, except for the cost.

[emmie]

neighbours must be livid, not to mention the family

[tonyav]

Yep, I bet that's done the neighbours house prices a lot of good !.

[emmie]

i can't understand why the council workers, or planners didn't stop and actually look at what they were doing. It like some dreadful joke.

[tonyav]

Makes you wonder doesn't it, emmie.

[emmie]

it does tony, it's hideous.

[lozzer50]

looks like the barriers used for x factor or BGT . what an eyesore

[emmie]

so it is. I wonder at council sometimes, don't you?

[tonyav]

Almost all councils plead poverty, yet this particular council blows £40,000 on this monstrosity.

[emmie]

ours just blew 140 thousand on artwork for their brand new mega bucks council office.

[emmie]

take that back, it's only 130 k

http://www.camdennewjournal.com/

[tonyav]

Doesn't seem to matter when it's only the council tax payers money though, emmie.

[black_cat51]

as i put on the other post, i absolutely don't get what the problem is. This family campaigned for 2 years to get a ramp, after previously saying they could manage the steps. They got what they wanted. Then they have the cheek to complain about it. You can't put a wheelchair ramp at steep angles - you can't push people up them if they are steep, and no doubt the council would have left itself open to being sued when the slope was angled and the girl rolled down

[emmie]

you are joking surely, this monstrosity is completely impractical.
i petitioned a council and got a ramp for a relative, i had to push for it, but it wasn't anything as stupid as this.

[emmie]

they have idiots in councils, i have come across far too many not to think they are country wide.