If you followed the furious protests by Sheffield residents against the mass felling of street trees by the local council, you’ll know how in a bid to save costs, local authorities have chopped down over 100,000 trees over recent years. And despite many claiming to have replaced felled trees, saplings simply cannot match the benefits of a mature-canopy tree. Trees…
Although you can buy trailers designed to be towed behind mobility scooters, they are not legal to use on pavements or the road. The Road Vehicles (Construction & Use) Regulations 1986 state that so-called invalid carriages are not entitled to tow trailers of any type. The ban appears to be another example of mobility scooter users being discriminated against. For…
An estimated 300,000 people in the UK rely on a mobility scooter to lead an independent life, but are they all they could be? We know for instance that many people would like to carry a passenger, but for some unknown reason tandem seat mobility scooters remain illegal in this country. Likewise, manufacturers seem unwilling to provide mobiltiy scooters with…
Tandem mobility scooters are no different from a conventional driver-only model, other than their stretched chassis and additional seat. However, they are not currently legal to use on British roads or pavements. We wrote to the Department for Transport to ask why and this is what they said: Tandem mobility scooters cannot legally be used on pavements or roads in Britain.…
Around 300,000 people in the UK rely on a mobility scooter to lead an independent life and that includes using it for shopping trips. Most large shops and supermarkets make good provision for mobility scooters and some even have scooters of their own that you can borrow. By law all shops must be accessible but you may find that narrow…
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