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[Marks DTM Calib]

.....but I do sometimes wonder if the solution to the problem might be a little bit over the top.

So imagine this, you live in a council house in Glasgow and if thats not bad enough, you also have a disabled daughter. The access to your property is up a short flight of stairs and so you request installation of a ramp to make it easier.

All fair and good as this is the current situation.



So the council look into it and £40K later you have this:





A ten level ramp.....which the local kids are making 'full use of' 

[pauls]

H&S gone mad

[omega3000]

Kin idiots 

[Kevin Wood]

So imagine this, you live in opposite a council house in Glasgow..

Words fail me.

[Gaffers]

talk about using sammy sledge to crack a nut....jeez!

[Ever Ready]

Bureaucracy gone mad

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Perhaps a move to another council property, one without steps, could have been considered.

.....'tis' amusing though.

[Rog]

I assume it was all done with appropriate planning permission.

If someone wanted to do that with a non council owned property, I very much doubt that it would get planning approval

[Sir Tigger KC]

It looks more like a football terrace and I bet the neighbours are chuffed to bits!!   

[zirk]

That aint gonna work in the dark, No Lamposts installed around the Footpath, 

[Sir Tigger KC]

That aint gonna work in the dark, No Lamposts installed around the Footpath, 

Ah bugger....    Best spend another £10k on some lighting then! 

[Elite Pete]

It's all to do with the disabled discrimination act and it needs to be compliant 

[Ever Ready]

Indeed, you now need to have resting points over a certain length of straight, ironically it is the resting points that push up the overall length.

As said above, why not just rehouse the folk, planning permission is no different for the council, they face the same strict procedures as an individual applicant........Yeah right 

[Steve B]

Have you been playing with photoshop, Cos that looks like something from Melton market On a tuesday   

[ted_one]

The longer I live,the stronger the desire to give up is becoming more apparent ::)What a bunch of tossers!!