{"id":142,"date":"2015-08-05T14:39:49","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T14:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rossatkin.com\/bathaudit\/?page_id=142"},"modified":"2015-08-05T14:39:49","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T14:39:49","slug":"consultation-summary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/rossatkin.com\/bathaudit\/index.php\/consultation-summary\/","title":{"rendered":"Consultation summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bath city centre Access and Mobility Consultation, March 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We carried out an extensive consultation process among older and disabled people in Bath over March 2015, publicising the consultation over a month in advance via the Council website and using Council contacts to get information out to a range of local disability groups.<\/p>\n<p>We used a number of ways of getting people to outline and express the issues they have getting around Bath city centre, as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Focus group discussions<\/strong>: we held six sessions, two sessions a day from 9<sup>th<\/sup> to 11<sup>th<\/sup> March with groups ranging from 2 to 8 people each. Five sessions were held at Bath Council offices in Westgate House and one was held at the Citadel with the Bath Access Group.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Questionnaire<\/strong>: Sent out a paper and an electronic survey: <em>Bath centre, Access and Mobility survey<\/em> and received 30 responses<\/li>\n<li><strong>Telephone conversations<\/strong>: We spoke to at least 15 people over the telephone who could not attend focus group discussions or walkabouts.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Walkabouts:<\/strong> Went on an accompanied walkabout with a local expert from Deaf Plus Vision Plus<\/li>\n<li><strong>Filmed walkabouts<\/strong>: We carried out filmed walkabouts of 12 volunteers around the city centre<\/li>\n<li><strong>Independent walkabouts<\/strong>: We walked areas of the city centre assessing where the infrastructure could better meet the needs of disabled and older people.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Many of those who attended the focus group discussions also filled out the questionnaires so there is some overlap.<\/p>\n<p>The issues brought up in the consultation exercises are outlined below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary of priorities<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The biggest issue for respondents are the quality of pavements\/ footways with poor surfacing, steep cambers, narrow widths and high kerbs with no dropped kerbs to get to and from the road.<\/li>\n<li>The second biggest issue is lack of facilities such as toilets and lack of step-free access to places<\/li>\n<li>Parking with lack of Blue Badge parking spaces and high parking charges was the third largest grouping of issues.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bath city centre Access and Mobility Consultation, March 2015 We carried out an extensive consultation process among older and disabled people in Bath over March 2015, publicising the consultation over a month in advance via the Council website and using Council contacts to get information out to a range of local disability groups. We used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rossatkin.com\/bathaudit\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/142"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rossatkin.com\/bathaudit\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rossatkin.com\/bathaudit\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rossatkin.com\/bathaudit\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rossatkin.com\/bathaudit\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rossatkin.com\/bathaudit\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408,"href":"http:\/\/rossatkin.com\/bathaudit\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/142\/revisions\/408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rossatkin.com\/bathaudit\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}