The city of Chester has won the accolade of being the most welcoming city in the continent for disabled people.
It beat off the challenge from more than 40 other places to be awarded the European Access City Award, as a place which goes ‘above and beyond’ its duty to be accessible and easy for disabled people to visit.
Most of Chester’s tourist attractions are now wheelchair-accessible, including its Roman city walls, and there are plans underway to aid those with other disabilities, including the building of more Changing Places toilets.
The Mayor, Councillor Angela Claydon, says she welcomed the honour and that the city’s inhabitants and businesses should be ‘chuffed’ to receive it. She added: ““We appreciate that Chester’s not the finished article and there is plenty of room for improvement but we are absolutely committed to working with disabled organisations to ensure that the whole of the borough is as accessible to all as it can be.”
A total of 43 cities from 21 EU member states entered the contest, with the other finalists being locations in Italy, The Netherlands, Latvia, Spain and Sweden.
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