Just the day before today’s polling day we heard that the decision had been made not to allow voters to drive up the access path to The Glebe for today’s elections.  Instead, local residents would have to park in the High Street and make their way to The Glebe on foot.

We were told that people with disabilities or limited mobility who could not walk that distance would need to ring a mobile number on arrival at the entrance to the access path, and that the poll clerks would bring a ballot paper and ballot box out on to the street for them.

This clearly wasn’t satisfactory, so in discussion with the council, the local Lib Dem team liaised with mobility aids provider Bartrams, who have made a wheelchair available to electors who need it to get from the entrance on the High Street to the polling station.

We will be in communication with the council after today’s election to ask them to reinstate the use of The Pavilion as a polling station, and to review their arrangements for access for voters with disabilities and limited mobility both on this occasion and more generally.