Reading council has faced calls to create a webpage that would be a ‘one stop shop’ for people with disabilities seeking important information.

This information can include places where people can park for disabled blue badge holders, disabled toilet locations and which places are accessible for wheelchairs.

Information provided on Reading Borough Council’s website has been scrutinised by Nigel McAlister, a member of the council’s Access and Disabilities Working Group.

Mr McAlister said that he had difficulty finding Reading specific information on the website.

He said: “If I go to an area which I’m not aware of, nine times out of 10 I go to their website to find out where disabled parking is, as different areas have different rules.”

However, he criticised the Reading Council website for not providing enough location information on disabled parking.

Mr McAlister said: “I’ve never found anything there, it’s all national. It’s the same with disabled toilets, you key in the website, you get no information at all. There are a lot of areas where people need access to that information.”

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He added that Camden Council in London has ” a particularly good website” when asked for examples of good practice by councillor Karen Rowland (Labour, Abbey) a fellow member of the group.

Furthermore, cllr Jan Gavin (Labour, Caversham) asked the council’s website manager Adam Bevington how  a ‘disabilities access page’ could be made.

Mr Bevington replied that he would take the feedback on board and begin an action plan with his team.

Cllr Gavin, the chair of the group, then asked Mr McAlister and others on the panel to compile a list of information that disabled people think would find useful to have to improve the council’s accessibility webpage in the future.

Discussion about the webpage took place at a meeting on Thursday, September 8.