New beauty salon to open in Sheffield suburb despite complaints about disabled access
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A former architect's office on Moor Oaks Road in Broomhill will be converted into a salon with four treatment rooms but councillors were unhappy about access to the large Victorian building.
Coun Chris Rosling-Josephs told the planning board: "If I was part of a disabled group I would be boycotting this. There are solutions to this and nobody has thought outside the box.
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Hide Ad"A lot of disabled people may want to use this facility. There's technology that converts a set of stairs into a lift and this needs looking at."
Councillors Bob McCann, Adam Hirst and Peter Garbutt agreed. Coun Garbutt said: "People routinely meet these barriers and are told it's too difficult to provide disabled access. I know this is an old building but it's a human rights issue."
Councillors agreed the salon can open but said they want the owners to reconsider the access.