HC Deb 17 July 1972 vol 841 cc55-6W
Miss Quennell

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) whether he will advise, in his planning circulars to local authorities, that handicapped persons' vehicles should not be barred from pedestrian shopping precincts when those are closed to normal traffic;

(2) what circulars he has sent to local authorities drawing their attention to the need to preserve access facilities and parking facilities for handicapped persons after pedestrian shopping precincts are closed to all vehicles.

Mr. Graham Page

In circular Roads 13/71 my Department asks local authorities undertaking pedestrianisation schemes to give sympathetic consideration to the special needs of the disabled and refers to the publication "Planning for Disabled People in the Urban Environment" published by the Central Council for the Disabled.