A crusade to improve disabled access in Maldon's shops has been launched by a group of GCSE pupils.
Survey work - Plume School pupils Emma Croft, Tammy Wright and Amanda Hajek check out disability accesss. Picture: SEANA HUGHES 40832-a
Some of the best and worst shops for access to the disabled have been identified by year 11 pupils Tammy Wright, Emma Croft and Amanda Hajek from Maldon's Plume School.
The teenagers have recently undertaken an investigation as part of their Citizenship coursework, focusing on 30 shops in the town.
The 15-year-olds visited the stores and graded them on how accessible they were for disabled people marking them on aisle width, entrance accessibility and numerous other problems which people may face.
Tammy Wright, spokesman for the group, said: "We are calling for an improvement in disabled access in many of Maldon's shops. It is unfair that disabled people shouldn't be able to use the same shops that we can.
"Some of my family are disabled so I know how difficult it can be for them to get around certain shops. We had a list of criteria and then marked the shops out of ten. We just want to make people aware of the problems some people face."
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Published Wednesday, February 2, 2005
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