Partially Sighted To Get Disability Parking
St Neots is to make the pioneering step of introducing town centre parking bays for the partially sighted.
Angie Doblington, of the councils Social Exclusion unit, said “For too long now the partially sighted have been denied the convenience of normal access to the towns facilities,” She added that “since the positive public response to building the councils Non Specific Use Unit, this had become an imperative.”
The new bays will be wider and have rubber bollards. The scheme has survived a planning objection by Sids Body Repair Shop.
Stephanie Collington, a visually challenged driver, said it would be a real help. “Sometimes it could get difficult I would have one of my ‘little bumps’ and people would shout ‘Are you blind?!’. And I’d say, ‘Yes actually!’ and that would shut them up.”
Stanley Dent, a differently sighted driver, said he was delighted. “Going into town was always a bit of an adventure, trying to find a gap in the coloured blobs, sometimes there would be a grating noise and you couldn’t get the door open.”
Story by PW
