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Welcome mat for all to the water’s edge

By MP News GroupDecember 5, 2016No Comments2 Mins Read
Ready to roll: Above, Karen Frankhauser, tries out the new beach matting at Mt Martha with Virginia Richardson and the mayor Bev Colomb (right) while, below, Cooper Smith gets a helping push towards the sea from his sister Pepper. Pictures: Keith Platt
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Ready to roll: Above, Karen Frankhauser, tries out the new beach matting at Mt Martha with Virginia Richardson and the mayor Bev Colomb (right) while, below, Cooper Smith gets a helping push towards the sea from his sister Pepper. Pictures: Keith Platt
Ready to roll: Above, Karen Frankhauser, tries out the new beach matting at Mt Martha with Virginia Richardson and the mayor Bev Colomb (right) while, below, Cooper Smith gets a helping push towards the sea from his sister Pepper. Pictures: Keith Platt

wheelchair-access4AFTER five years of negotiations and planning, beach matting has finally arrived to provide safe access for wheelchairs at Mt Martha beach.

Unrolled to public for the first time two Saturdays ago (27 November), the matting was quickly given trial runs, and the thumbs up.

Several wheelchairs and one man using two crutches took to the matting after a ribbon cutting ceremony involving Mornington Peninsula Shire mayor, Cr Bev Colomb, the shire’s MetroAccess officer Virginia Richardson, Mt Martha Life Saving Club president David Mowat and Karen Frankhauser.

The first roll of matting was given a kick by Mark Hopper before it was pinned to the sand by lifesavers.

Making the water’s edge accessible to wheelchairs has been a long-held aim of the Disabled Surfers’ Association Mornington Peninsula branch, which wants a similar system operating at other peninsula beaches.

The DSAMP has six wide-wheeled wheelchairs which it hopes to make available to the public when not needed for scheduled surfing events at Point Leo.

The 50 metres of plastic matting now being kept and regularly rolled out by Mt Martha lifesavers was bought by the shire.

Ms Richardson said the success of the matting and its popularity would be evaluated in May and, if appropriate, made available at other peninsula lifesaving clubs.

Cr Colomb said the “pilot project … will now be rolled out every weekend until 30 April”.

First published in the Mornington News – 6 December 2016

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