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Tealeaf · 14-02-2005, 16:33

The artists impression (how often do they turn out to match the end product?) shows carefully manicured mounds, arising at an angle of about 70%., with a few people on top.My question is: If there is to be open access to the top of these mounds, how are people in wheelchairs going to be able to get to the top? I can't see how. Maybe each one will have a Stannah Lift or something similar around the back. I just cannot see how they will give equal access to everyone, which, given the current criteria on public sector funding of schemes such as this, would make the mounds illegal.

The only way MPAA & and the clowns on HBC I can see getting round this obstacle would be to fence in the mounds, which once again defeats the object of putting them there in the first place.

One final point: These things really do look nice and tidy...are they going to be kept that way or are they going to be allowed to grow wild, with bushes and long wild grass sprouting out everywhere? if its the latter, can someone tell me how you're going to get a lawnmower down the sides of these things.....I wonder if the HSC has been consulted. If its the latter, then theres no point in turfing it over in the first instance,,,,You may as well get Murphy up there in a hired JCB, free Guiness for the weekend, as many mounds as he can do,total cost about five hundred quid, total saving to the ratepayer, £49,500 quid.

14-02-2005, 16:33	#98
Tealeaf God Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Paradise Lost Posts: 7,220 Liked: 11 times Rep Power: 4266	Re: big bumps on the coppice...? The artists impression (how often do they turn out to match the end product?) shows carefully manicured mounds, arising at an angle of about 70%., with a few people on top.My question is: If there is to be open access to the top of these mounds, how are people in wheelchairs going to be able to get to the top? I can't see how. Maybe each one will have a Stannah Lift or something similar around the back. I just cannot see how they will give equal access to everyone, which, given the current criteria on public sector funding of schemes such as this, would make the mounds illegal. The only way MPAA & and the clowns on HBC I can see getting round this obstacle would be to fence in the mounds, which once again defeats the object of putting them there in the first place. One final point: These things really do look nice and tidy...are they going to be kept that way or are they going to be allowed to grow wild, with bushes and long wild grass sprouting out everywhere? if its the latter, can someone tell me how you're going to get a lawnmower down the sides of these things.....I wonder if the HSC has been consulted. If its the latter, then theres no point in turfing it over in the first instance,,,,You may as well get Murphy up there in a hired JCB, free Guiness for the weekend, as many mounds as he can do,total cost about five hundred quid, total saving to the ratepayer, £49,500 quid.