Council support RNIB Street Charter

Hull City has been the first council to pledge to work with local disabled people in tackling the issue of street clutter.

It pledged support to vision charity RNIB’s Street Charter, which aimed to address the ‘growing problem’ of street obstacles; bollards, advertising boards, bins, cars parked on pavements, and 'shared space' schemes.

Survey results in RNIB's 'Who put that there' report last year revealed a third of blind and partially sighted people across the UK had injured themselves when walking around their local areas – with 95% of people having collided with an obstacle.