Ms Sue
Legend Member
- Points
- 5
A MOTHER is outraged after a council
built the most ridiculous ramp in her front yard.
Clare Lally, 33, campaigned for two years to get a disabled ramp installed for her daughter Katie, 7.
Lally lives in the flat with her partner, Derek, and her two children. The family live on the third story of a council flat in Glasgow, and required access for wheelchair-bound Katie who is suffering from bulbar palsy.
The council’s $74k (40,000 British pounds) “solution” was a the steel ramp which takes up the entire front garden. It left Ms Lally devastated. She couldn’t even see the end of the 60-metre atrocity from her window.
Clare Lally spent two years campaigning for improved access for her daughter and ended up with this. Source:Snapper Media
“We weren’t fighting for a massive steel ramp — we just wanted to improve Katie’s quality of life,” she said.
“What they have built is something which I would never have expected a local council to do. We have to open our blinds and look at it every day.”
Ms Lally said their problems were increased by youths using it as a skateboard ramp, as the council also refuses to install a gate due to “safety reasons”.
“There must have been a better solution. The council could have gone about the whole project in a more sensible way,” Ms Lally said.
A West Dunbartonshire Council spokesman said the council made adaptations to the property after the family indicated they could not manage the steps.
“This led to the installation of the wheelchair ramp as requested by the family,” he said.
Lally lives in the flat with her partner, Derek, and her two children. The family live on the third story of a council flat in Glasgow, and required access for wheelchair-bound Katie who is suffering from bulbar palsy.
The council’s $74k (40,000 British pounds) “solution” was a the steel ramp which takes up the entire front garden. It left Ms Lally devastated. She couldn’t even see the end of the 60-metre atrocity from her window.
Clare Lally spent two years campaigning for improved access for her daughter and ended up with this. Source:Snapper Media
“We weren’t fighting for a massive steel ramp — we just wanted to improve Katie’s quality of life,” she said.
“What they have built is something which I would never have expected a local council to do. We have to open our blinds and look at it every day.”
Ms Lally said their problems were increased by youths using it as a skateboard ramp, as the council also refuses to install a gate due to “safety reasons”.
“There must have been a better solution. The council could have gone about the whole project in a more sensible way,” Ms Lally said.
A West Dunbartonshire Council spokesman said the council made adaptations to the property after the family indicated they could not manage the steps.
“This led to the installation of the wheelchair ramp as requested by the family,” he said.
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