My council are (swear word)

I feel your frustration Annie
Bunch of jobs worths !

Yes, I think you must be very frustrated. You can't be the first person to ask this so I expect the staff at the Council find it frustrating too. Apart from those with power, the employees have no choice but to give you these hopeless answers.

The staff are paid, I am not

Annie you should have inserted swear word in Welsh.
I bet HQ wouldn't have had a Scooby Doo
I do glad to read that you have a scooter excellent way to get about.
Hope the brakes are in good working order or you will be whizzing down those hills!

By the way what a load of plonkers.

Do you have a flat area next to your house as I am assuming it an electric scooter and will need to a charging point?

I was about to say unbelievable after reading your post through Anniebach..............but then stopped just in time..........of course you are dealing with the Council.......and others of a similar bunch of.............(Is there a welsh word that would fit the space???!!!)...............

If you are thinking of a mobility scooter I feel a great joy........because it will enable you to get out and about.
So please persue this idea ......there maybe a few hurdles but with your determination, I am sure you will cross each one and come out on top.

Good luck.......do let us know what happens with the Jobs worth crowd!!!

Cherry, they are a nightmare.

I haven’t bought the scooter yet, can’t have it in the bungalow, a path outside the bedroom window at the front but a high step to the front path to the road, , a good size garden at the rear but would have to ride it on grass to get to the front path and that would mean a scooter over £3,000

I had to have permission to put a baby gate at the front door in case Lotty did a runner, then they checked the gate to see if it was suitable !

Panache, diawled came to mind .

Annie The mind boggles checking on a safety gate for your little dog,would they come out and check if you had a toddler visiting ?
Hoping you get it resolved and you enjoy being out and about soon.

Having just returned to the NE, I'm most impressed with the work of the councils in Newcastle and Gateshead since we left in 2000.
They have improved the area in many ways, mainly by developing open spaces to be calming environments.
I don't think they will ever overcome the basic problems of poverty etc, but seem to be trying to bring some self-respect to Tyneside.

What about a ramp to help with the high step?

Councils have no money now and they probably have no one qualified to answer your questions as those kinds of people have been made redundant.

I didn’t ask them to pay for anything, only where I can park it , if I paid to have a ramp built they can tell me to remove it.

Anniebach the majority of scooters are just fine on grass . They obviously aren't 'off roaders' but what you're describing is fine. I often walk Sam at the dog park and ride mine across grass. Its only if the weather has been VERY bad and the ground very soggy that it might be an issue.

Don't forget , you need access to an electric point for charging.

Really NannaandG? The length of grass is about 17 ft. If I could park it at the back it would be next to the kitchen so easy to charge it.

I read all the blurb on scooters and thought I would have to buy an off roader.

I meant that councils have no money to employ the type of people who would answer your query, not that you were asking them to pay for anything!

Ramps can be portable, they don't need to be permanent.

Do you have a Blue Badge or receive any disability payments? If you are disabled I'd have thought someone would have to be found to do something. Maybe Occupational Health could help.

You can get roll-out pathways to lay on grass. www.thelivingcentre.co.uk/roll-out-wheelchair-trackway.html

www.primrose.co.uk/instant-garden-path-c-32_33_9609_12610.html?source=googleads&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI5qTtxeeX3AIVqp3tCh20rAf_EAAYASAAEgKWYfD_BwE

Annie, at least someone answered the phone! DD has a much less critical problem but which shows equal incompetence.

Her garden rubbish used to be collected for free, but this year it was decided there would be an annual charge for the brown bin, which she and many others paid. Last week, three months into the year, there was a news item in her local free paper to say the council was stopping brown bin collections. Sure enough, she put her bin out last week and it wasn't emptied.

She has spent three days this week trying to ring the council to find out when they will reimburse her for the nine months of the annual charge when there will be no service. Not once has the phone been answered.

As she said, 'The council are a load of (swear words)'

Sue, that is great, if I am given permission to lay it , I could time the grass cutters and whip it up before they were due, well my son in law who isn’t could, I am now hopeful .

MOnica, that is so wrong, I asked if my wheelie bin could be put back from whence it was collected, five steps from where they leave it, I have to submit a doctors letter , they will take about two weeks to make a decision , yes they always answer the phone

It's atemporary pathway, Annie, I don't see why you couldn't use it. That's assuming it's not a communal area of grass, which might be different.

Asked the groundsman this morning, no I can’t put the path down even though it’s waste ground which no one uses.

Town councillor next, I am fed up with this .

Write to your MP Annie if there is no answer to this from the council.You can’t be lugging a scooter up a step.
The trouble is sometimes, if a question is asked that isn’t on the regular easy to answer questions list, then council employees flounder around.

I am now tempted to put a scooter shed slam in the front of the bungalow, that will bring someone around here.

Doesn'tit just drive you bonkers!!!!

I have just been online trying to find out who the 2 people from the mental health service who are coming to see OH are (nurse/doctor?) - all I can get a garbage spiels about "our vision" etc. and the service itself is called "2Gether" (cringe) - crazy stuff!

Annie -I do hope you find an answer to your problem - it seems so simple - but never is!!

Oh, that's disappointing, Annie.

I'd use the disability discrimation card, I think. They can't be seen to be breaking the law, surely?

I am not giving up on this, if the town councillor fails to help it will be my AM next. I will contact my GP, physiotherapist and occupational therapist for letters of support. The council are forcing me to be housebound are they not?