A woman in Duntocher Clydebank England spent two years working for improved access for her wheelchair-bound daughter and finally they came through, installed to the tune of
£40,000 ($66,600).
Council said given regulations it is the
only solution.
But it is a great skateboard ramp, so there's that.
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Ah, the glory of regulations!
Sweet regulations. Coming soon
Rampant regulations
Sweet....first they GIVE her a home. Then she whines about it. Then they GIVE her what she whined about. A wheelchair ramp that has to comply with the laws of physics and have a certain regulated slope to it. THEN she whines some more that the ramp is ugly.
For Christ's sake! is there any pleasing this woman?
Maybe they shouldn't have started this whole thing by GIVING her a home.
Actually, this story makes me laugh. Unintended consequences. At least the skateboarders are pleased. Yay!!! cool new ramp.
This could be viewed as a giant FU. Even council workers have a sense of humor.
Our hang gliding club built a clubhouse where we relax after flying and have a few beers while watching others crash land for laughs. The city required the 3 foot high structure have hand rails and a 40 foot long handicap ramp.
Think about that. The patrons jump off of a 3500 foot high cliff and fly around mostly unregulated hanging from a cloth kite, but we need a hand rail and ramp to safely access our 36" high nest.
All the hand rails are one-of-a-kind, designed, built, installed, and donated by yours truly in Stainless Steel and Redwood.
SGHA Pavillion
@ Bago Nice club house! We are in the process of planning a small park in our area. I have shamelessly copied your photos and will present them as an example of an outdoor pavilion for our planning committee.
When we were building our house we ran into the idiotic regulations on railings. The original part of the house was actually a RV Barn/workshop with a concrete floor. About 28 ft x 40 ft. It has an 11 foot ceiling. We made that part our 'great' room. Kitchen and dining area, living room, foyer. Because the floor is concrete and we didn't like the feeling of the high ceilings all the way through the giant room, we decided to build a raised platform in an ELL shape, to accommodate the plumbing and gas lines to the kitchen and dining area. It breaks up the room. We also build a slightly lowered ceiling over the kitchen and kitchen island to further give it definition as a separate space.
Anyhoo.... Because the elevated area was a certain height, the building code demanded that we have a railing with stiles to prevent children from falling off of the edge. The visual result from the sunken living area would be that you were in a giant crib or a sunken jail cell. It would impede the open feeling of the room and block the view. SO we, just re-engineered and built the platform a couple of inches lower. No railings needed. Take THAT building department. If we get drunk and fall off of the platform, that's our problem.
"Council said given regulations it is the only solution."
I love how the rules matter so much until those in power want to break them for their own pet project. Our costs doubled and the timetable tripled once the local government got to review what was originally a very simple plan. Still, we managed to shave off a lot of costs and time by just knowing some of the right people.
Colegero/C:" Sonny was right. The working man is a sucker."
"Even council workers have a sense of humor."
At the expense, literally, of the taxpayer. Aaaand suddenly it's not funny anymore. The kid is disabled from birth; none of this is her fault. The parents should pay for the family's housing but, okay, maybe the cost of caring for the disabled kid prevents that. (Wait, this is England, isn't healthcare "free?" allowing people to pursue their dreams? Of living in shitty council houses?) The real satan: fucking unaccountable nontransparent the-rules-are-what-we-say-they-are government bureaucracy. If you're going to give someone a free house you can't be all stunned and amazed, surprised and outraged when they complain that they can't access it. Duh. And dragging your feet for years and then providing an expensive and probably unnecessary eyesore to in order to exact personal revenge is some petty bullshit.
Tea Partay in the UK. Or anarchy. Whatever suits.
BTW, in California there are a couple of guys whose entire life existence involves going around in their wheelchairs looking for buildings that are not code-compliant so they can sue the owners. (There's attorney fees.)
Your geography is crap. Duntocher isn't in England - Yankee education- I despair
Joe Soap
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