Urgent FAO Woking Residents & Visitors

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mr_dombat

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You know the wooden footbridge between the Brewery Road carpark (by the Lightbox) that crosses the canal? Well when WWF build their new HQ on stilts on top of the car park, they want US to fork out £750K for a new bridge, that on the plans goes into their first floor!!!!

Therefore if you're cycling along the canal or walking in from the car park, you need to go up huge ramps (only 1.6m wide) or loads of stairs.

No thanks. If we're paying, WWF staff & visitors can have the ramps & stairs.

Sign this petition to try and get the new bridge at it's current level (e.g ground level)
Petition

If you feel strongly about it, email douglas.spinks@woking.gov.uk (deputy chief exec) who will be carrying out a kind of "email consultation" (they wont do a real consiultation as they think only the lycra louts are causing trouble).
 
I should keep my big gob shut - but your petition mentions wheel chair access; from looking at Google Earth, it looks like there's currently wheelchair access to the canal path at this point (and no other points for quite some distance?).

If the proposed new bridge restricts access, does/can the DDA (now the Equality Act 2010) apply?
 
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mr_dombat

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I think there's some people in Brewery Road carpark today (Sat 1st) to talk about this if you're interested. Don't make special journey as heard this on the grapevine!
 
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