I WELCOME the news in the Advertiser (20 April, ‘Review to aid the disabled’) that Cllr Hamilton has taken the initiative to explore ways of meeting the requirements of the disabled in so many ways within Andover and the surrounding district.

The borough council has a long record of helping to meet their needs, particularly since 1981, the ‘Year of the Disabled’. That year led to the formation of the Andover Action Committee for the Disabled with representatives of various concerned organisations. The council represented at both councillor and officer level.

Over the years it achieved a wide range of successes from dropped kerbs to car parking spaces for disabled people, to the formation of Andover Shopmobility. Very often the action committee had to battle to get improvements which are now the ‘norm’.

From time to time the committee were asked by the county council for assistance in carrying out disability compliance inspections of their buildings.

John Barrell, Weyhill Road, Andover.