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

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Clare Lally spent two years campaigning for wheelchair home access for her disabled daughter - only for the council to build this 10-level slalom ?eyesore? outside her house.

The mum-of-one 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.

When officials finally relented, Clare?s relief soon turned to shock when West Dunbartonshire Council spent ?40,000 on a chicane-style steel ramp monstrosity which fills their entire front garden.

The winding 60-metre path is proving a long way round for Clare and bulbar palsy sufferer Katie - who can?t even see the bottom of the ramp from her bedroom window.

Dismayed mum Clare, 33, said: ?There must have been a better solution. The council could have gone about the whole project in a more sensible way.'

'We had to move to the house to get easier access for Katie and we have fought all these months to get that.

The council said this was the only option to fit something into the garden because of building regulations.

'It is a lot easier but I don't believe that the council weren't able to do something else

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/mum-wityh-disabled-daughter-campaigns-for-wheelchair-ramp---and-gets-%C2%A340-000--slalom--eyesore-143242677.html#iVT1c0h

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SCOTTISH COUNCILS spending the money they won't have after independence?

Just imagine the fact that 40 homes paid council tax for this one project, plus what on earth is a family who has a disabled daughter living in a council house with that ridiculous incline??

[nlk]

Apparently the skate boarders love it.

[gc1966]

looks fine to me

[Meat-Head]

I agree that looks awesome bit of kit

[GastonJ]

As nlk says, aimed at skateboarders or even snowboarders when it snows. Put a sign up ?1 a go

[bobwill]

Thought for ?40,000 they would have put capping on the brickwork

[Meat-Head]

Thing is it would have took time to build

question is was they pestering everyday for this ramp. Snd the silcin chip inside sodrbodys head swutched to overload?

was it the councils failt she bred a faulty kid?

[super jumbe]

Looks like cattle auction site, how did the council managed to spend 40,000 for some thing looks like scaffolding???

[GastonJ]

First time the pikeys pass by they'll find it in the local scrapyard

[gmb45]

ffs building regulations the council make the regulations, 40k ffs, im all fur helping the disabled but what a waste of tokens, they could have ripped them steps oot and made a zig zag path oot of concrete or something fur a few 1000, what an eye sore ffs.

[gc1966]

was discussed on radio 2 yesterday ,a builder rang in and said he quoted 27k for a more suitable layout and was told he had put in too high a quote so the council refused him the work.

[Kalipo]

For 5k they could of fitted this

[Snowy79]

Looking at that job if it was built by the Council it would have taken 50 men three years to complete.

[GastonJ]

Would also have been outsourced on a PFI and been paid for over 25 years at a bargain price of ?39,999.99 a year saving the council 1 pence for the first year.