Please have a look and I will be grateful for your opinions on this.
Thanks, Nathan
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I have just posted my review in the 'Entertainment' section for the new Everyman cinema in Leeds Trinity.
Please have a look and I will be grateful for your opinions on this. Thanks, Nathan
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Hi all. This is my new video to promote and welcome people to AccessibleLeeds. Pleas subscribe to my YouTube channel AccessibleLeeds. I look forward to making more videos in the future. Thanks Nathan :) What a shame. Trinity could have been great and been a good place for everyone to use, it is not. It has two lifts which are very busy and used by people who do not need a lift. I don't get it, why, if people can use escalators do they wait in line for the lift and stop disabled people using it?
Trinity is a new building and they had a great chance to include everyone who wants to use it, they missed that chance. Hi Nathan, we’ve been in touch with the Topshop project management team and they have confirmed that they will be installing a jockey lift on the first floor that will provide access to the suit department. This was in their plans but they have not had a chance to install prior to opening. We’re not sure exactly when they plan to install the lift yet but we would be happy to contact you again as soon as we know. Thanks again for raising this important issue. If you’d like to come and visit us we would also be happy to take you through our plans to ensure that Trinity Leeds is as accessible as possible when we open next spring – we worked on this with the access committee for Leeds and would welcome your comments.
I was disappointed yesterday. I went to see the first shop part of the new Trinity shopping centre in leeds. The shop, Topman/Topshop, was very nice but the men's suits part was not accessible for wheelchair users. This is not good for a new building!
I was looking forward to going to Temple Newsam on Sunday with my family to the Olympic Torch celebrations.
But yet again, I have been told that only one carer is allowed on the accessible viewing platform with me. I am so angry about this, this happens at all events in Leeds and not just this Olympic one. Yes, I do use a wheelchair but that does not mean that everything I do is with a carer, I have family, friends and even a girlfriend and I want to enjoy things with them. Last year at Party in the Park my family were told that only one carer was allowed on the accessible viewing platform with a wheelchair. I am not a wheelchair, I am a person and have a right to try to live my life as others do and enjoy things with those that I love. The council say that there is not enough room for people in wheelchairs to enjoy events with family and friends and have said they understand my 'desire' to see things with my family. It is not my desire it is my right and I am fed up of the council stopping me from doing this. Why not just build a bigger platform and let everyone enjoy events equally. I am so sad about the Temple Newsam event that I don't want to go now. Has anyone else had problems with this? Can you let me know? Nathan I know that I am not old enough to play the lottery yet but today, I went to check out the lottery stand on which you fill in your numbers.
I have quite a high up wheelchair and I am very tall but I could not reach properly to fill numbers in. Has anyone else struggled with this? As I do not think it is very good for wheelchair users. Last weekend I was without my left footplate because it was broken. It broke on friday at 3pm and Ross care refused to come and mend it. On Monday last thing, they came out to my school to put a new footplate on. I couldn't go out all weekend and felt sad. Ross care said it wasn't an urgent referral because I could still use my wheelchair. I have 2 legs and need 2 footplates! My left foot was touching the floor all weekend and most of Monday. It was hard to move anywhere in my wheelchair without my foot getting trapped.
What do you think of Ross care? Any good or bad experiences? Nathan On Thursday I went to the Yorkshire Playhouse because the BBC wanted to interview me about www.accessibleleeds.com. Interview on Look North soon.
My MP Mr Greg Mulholland has done something amazing. I am so shocked and really happy that Mr Mulholland has done something so great for me and disabled people in Leeds and hopefully everywhere else. Thank you. Nathan
This is what has happened he has said at Parliament... Wheelchair And Mobility Access In LeedsEDM number 2622 in 2010-12, proposed by Greg Mulholland on 19/01/2012. That this House welcomes the launch of the Accessible Leeds website by Leeds teenager and Whizz-Kidz Ambassador Nathan Popple, a website providing information to the people of Leeds on wheelchair and mobility access across the city; notes the work that Nathan has put in visiting shops, restaurants and other attractions in the city rating them on how wheelchair friendly they are; recognises the difficulties faced by those who are wheelchair users in accessing many public places; calls on more people to contribute to the campaign by highlighting locations where they have faced issues; and wishes him and all those who follow his good example the best of luck in expanding his website and pushing forward the campaign for better wheelchair and mobility access across the country. |
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