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Design tips for making your pub disabled friendly

14-Jul-2016 By Fiona Jarvis

With the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and the Equality Act 2010 coming to the fore, attracting disabled customers can give bars a competitive edge in the growing market estimated by the Department of Work & Pensions to be worth £212bn a year...

MPs back disability campaigners pub access bid

18-Mar-2011 By James Wilmore

A pub-loving disability campaigner is taking his fight to Westminster after successfully forcing a change in the law in Scotland. Mark Cooper's...

Disability: Open up your pub to new business

08-Sep-2010

Licensee Sue Moore is more aware than most of how unfairly people with disabilities can be treated. Some years ago her pub employed a medical...

Wetherspoon to open new Hampshire pub

15-Jul-2010 By Lesley Foottit

JD Wetherspoon is opening a new pub in Hampshire on Friday following a £1.1m re-development. The renovation of the Red Lion site in Petersfield,...

Scots disability campaigners hopeful over change in pub access law

29-Jun-2010 By James Wilmore

Scottish licensees will be asked to show how their pub can be accessed by disabled customers, under a proposal expected to become law. Disability...

Chris Maclean: Revisiting the DDA

19-Nov-2007 By Chris Maclean

I have to confess I'd forgotten about the DDA. In recent years there has been a succession of laws passed that have to be carried out by licensees....

Charity aims to raise £1m

12-Apr-2007

The LTC raises thousands of pounds for drinks-industry workers in need The Licensed Trade Charity (LTC) is one of hundreds of charities that provide...

Drinking to

29-Sep-2005

access A year since new regulations on disabled access came into force, and legal action against pubs failing to comply is still thin on the ground....

Charity says pubs fail the disabled

21-Oct-2004

by John Harrington Just 10% of pubs tested in the "sting" campaign to expose venues with inadequate disabled toilets made the grade, initial reports...

Shame on you

29-Sep-2004

Michelle Perrett on thwarted access.Licensees have been in uproar saying they are unsure of how to meet the requirements of the Disability...

Licensees not prepared for DDA

14-Sep-2004

Just over 70 per cent of licensees say they have made no adjustments to their premises to meet the requirements of the Disability Discrimination Act...

Licensees 'upset' by local newspaper criticism

13-Apr-2004

Publicans Chris and Isabella Hartwell have been 'greatly upset' by criticism of their decision to ask a carer to calm down a disabled...

Pubs are failing wheelchair-users'

18-Mar-2004

by John Harrington Pubs are out of touch with the needs of wheelchair-bound users, according to a new report. That is the view of campaigner Mary...

One year to comply

16-Oct-2003

The Disability Act soon comes into effect. Adam Withrington reports.Despite a national campaign to open up business to the UK's 8.5 million disabled...

DDA: Pubs must Act soon

09-Oct-2003

The Disability Discrimination Act comes into force just a year from nowA year from now the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) will be fully in...

Rights of access

05-Mar-2003

Legislation set to come into force in October 2004 means that pubs must step up a gear in how they cater for disabled people. Jackie Annett...

Licensees condemned by MP for failing disabled customers

03-Mar-2003

Licensees have been condemned by a wheelchair-bound MP who says pubs are failing to meet the needs of disabled customers.Anne Begg (pictured), the...

Publicans told to make right move on disabled facilities

02-Oct-2002

Licensees are running out of time to make changes to their properties to bring them in line with the new Disability Discrimination Act. The act,...

Disability Discrimination Act threatens independent pubs

21-Mar-2001

Legislation aimed at giving disabled people better access to pubs could hit prices paid for traditional country pubs, a licensed trade solicitor has...