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Luckygirl, hope you get a sensible answer x

Anniebach you have my sympathies! I was hitting my head against a brick wall constantly with our HA and council but thanks to the OTs advice I did what SueDonim suggests and used the Disability discrimination card and followed that with the Age discrimination one as well and it worked!
It also helped that I insisted on getting the names of the people I spoke to each time, noting them and then quoting them in any letters and calls.
Good luck!

Annie don't give up whatever you do and playing the discrimination cards seems a good plan.

We had a letter this week threatening us with a bill for using the 'pull out service' for our wheelie bin as they are not sure that we qualify! Grr! How disabled and unable do you need to be we are wondering! They have already had a Dr's letter and we are now having to pay for each one of those too. You couldn't make all these things up could you?!

Am so grateful for all your advice x

To be fair Annie I suspect they are just covering their backsides but from my own experience, my ordinary scooter copes admirably with a trundle across the lawn or playing field. And this is my 4th one I think .

I have been on considerably rougher terrain also and had no problems.

I think the area at the side of the bungalow is about 16ft NannaandG

Easy peasy Annie , dont be sucked into buying more than you need , you can spend your money on treats :-)

Fantastic , it can have a shed and i will not need permission because they will not see it ?

Yippee, thank you x

Update on my scooter parking

I told a friend from MIND, she brought another staff member to meet me, I explained the nonsense I had from the council etc.

He has taken it up, made a complaint re mental and physical disabilities, and — - - - -

The country architect will visit me to discuss my options .

The county architect just for a parking spot for a scooter !

He only turns up for extensions and new builds

If you can have a shed make sure it has a flattish entry so you can drive it in. My DM had a shed for hers and a wooden ramp shich a nice council carpenter came and made for her.

We’ve just had a professor come from Cambridge (two and a half hours drive away) especially to say if we can take six feet off one branch of a fifty foot luxurious Scots pine. It has a tree preservation order on it and we had to go to appeal! She wasn’t best pleased. I don’t know why she was grumbling, I bet she got well paid for her trouble.

Nfk, thank you for that advice, I have been loaned an old scooter to see how I can cope with using one and leaving the bungalow . Tried it Wednesday , very frightening,

That was quite some battle over the Pine.

I give up. The chap from MIND didn’t even get a call back. I had the scooter stuck in the small hall with the bathroom door wide open, a very small hall.

I phone council again, some one from planning phoned me back, arranged to visit week last Monday. No problem , I can have a shed at the front of bungalow, yippee. Just fill in a form.

Four page form arrived yesterday, I can’t keep pigeons and if I want to keep poultry it must be in the back garden !

Waded through the form, shed must not be more that 5’8” high. My scooter with the canopy I have ordered and paid for and is being made will be 6’. Phoned planning , buy a smaller canopy !

So scooter with fixed canopy will have to be parked in the Hall come winter.

A mobility scooter seemed such a good idea !