My disabled son, a wheel chair user, attends the Pathways day centre by St George's church in Gravesend. My wife collected our son from Pathways Thursday afternoon, 14 Feb in order to take our son to his Hydrotherapy session at Cotton Lane, Dartford. Jill, Andrew's mum, parked in St George's yard with our son's disabled blue badge clearly displayed, but was issued with a parking ticket. No obstruction was being caused so why the ticket? The warden came out with the usual comment,"I have issued the ticket. there is nothing I can do. There are free disabled parking places in the car park opposite St Georges Church, But usually there are no parking spaces available, and non-blue badge holders use the disabled bays. but we are, in any case, unable to use the car park with a wheel chair. Trying to cross from the car park back to St George's church pushing a wheel chair is extremely dangerous. There are ramps for wheel chairs on each side of the road, but they have been very poorly designed. The angles they are at are very steep and the wheelchair can get jammed in the road as you try to push the wheel chair on to the incline. Another problem is the pavement does not blend smoothly in to the road and means you have to have several attempts to get out of the road and on to the pavement. We have had several near misses with cars speeding around the bend to access St George's ctr car park, and decided our only safe option was to park at the entrance to St Georges, and push our son in his wheelchair up through the graveyard by the Pocahontas statue. Gravesend council should sort out the disabled facilities for people using Pathways Centre. Pathways is using what was the old Gravesend tourist office and has been in the place for 14 months. What was Gravesend council thinking of when they agreed to Pathways taking over the premises, but providing no suitable parking facilities for carers to deliver and collect their children from Pathways. Perhaps Gravesend's traffic wardens need some training, including practical demonstrations of how to get a wheel chair containing an adult from the lower car park to Pathways, especially when the people doing the pushing, in all weathers, are not very healthy pensioners...... Best regards, Malcolm Jackson, Andrew Jackson's dad.

Important to all disabled drivers who are unable to access accessible parking space, adding more stress and physical pain to conditions which necessitate having easy access to a vehicle.

It's a death trap as it is!

England is the only part of the UK where hospitals routinely charge patients and visitors for parking at all. Guidance by the Department of Health & Social Care is that concessions should be available for disabled people.* Free parking should be allowed for disabled people because they: > Are commonly forced to visit hospital more frequently, precisely because of their disabilities > Generally have much lower incomes, often less than half the national average > Are much more likely to live in poverty** > Often have to meet extra costs directly caused by their disabilities * https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-patient-visitor-and-staff-car-parking-principles/nhs-patient-visitor-and-staff-car-parking-principles#fn:2 ** https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/disability-facts-and-figures/disability-facts-and-figures#living-standards

2,627 people have died homeless in the last five years - but the true figure is much higher.

I am registered severely sighted and have a Guide Dog whom will soon be a match but have no garden or outside space.

There is a NEED for this facility. This only highlights the councils need to sell off public amenities. We need to stop these changes and speak up for what is right.

If bars and restaurants displayed accessibility ratings: It would be easier for disabled people find establishments that meet needs. I believe disabled people should have the same choices and options as everyone else. It would highlight a lack of facilities in areas of towns or cities and hopefully drive change to make places more accessible. It would make people think about disabled access and facilities when they build public places such as bars and restaurants.

This is of vital importance for people of the County Durham area. We are a nurse led unit who admit patients from Acute sites who are medically fit for discharge but may need more social input or would be unsafe to discharge home for example dementia patients, non- weight bearing patients and obese patients. The plans for these patients now is to discharge home for district nurses to see to but there are no proposals to increase the number of district nurses and when people spoke to them they were not aware of the proposals or how they were going to staff them!

I am Mason Bell, I am running this petition because the only access to the station is up flights of stairs. These stairs are steep and on one side there are 3 sections of steps to climb. This makes access very difficult for people with disabilities, parents with children in buggies and heavy luggage. I myself am unable to access the station as the stairs are too steep for me. I see lots of people struggle up the steps to the station and a lift or stairlift will make access and easier and be more likely to improve usage of the station.

Because there is none at all

IF THE GARDEN NURSERY CENTER WAS REINSTATED IT WOULD ENABLE PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES TO EXPAND THEIR HORIZONS, DEVELOP SOCIAL SKILLS, MEET NEW PEOPLE FROM MANY DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS, FEEL MORE INCLUSIVE IN THE BROADER COMMUNITY, BE THE FIRST STEP TO GAINING MEANINGFUL EMPLOYMENT, GAIN A SENSE OF SELF ACHIEVEMENT FOR BOTH THEMSELVES AND THEIR FAMILIES. IT WILL ALSO ACT AS A HUB FOR RETIRED GARDENERS TO PASS ON THEIR EXPERTISE TO A DIFFERENT GENERATION OF PEOPLE WILLING TO LEARN. CREATING A PLACE WITH A STRONG SENSE OF COMMUNITY.