REF:66-1911-2336221 - Accessibility in the Students' Union

Your comment: I would like to ask if you could fix the majority of doors around the student union etc. Being disabled, I find the doors very very heavy and quite a few of the buttons to open the doors inside and out are not working. Thank you

Our response:

The Students’ Union has been concerned about the accessibility of our building for quite some time and each year the University have assigned money to develop the main front doors of the building, but unfortunately each year we have been told that this money has not been available at the time a project has been feasible to deliver in terms of estates work. Plans are currently being developed that explore the refurbishment/development of the Students’ Union building and the potential timescale for these works and the value of any door replacement meant that the plans for new doors were again postponed. We will continue to pursue the front door accessibility as a priority but would also be keen to hear about any other doors that have been an issue for you so that we might be able to also consider those further too.