Pwllheli resident and wheelchair user Katalina Harper, showed Mabon ap Gwynfor MS what it is like to get around the town

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00:00I had the privilege of going to Pwllheli last year with Catalina Happer.

00:04Catalina Happer works for Cadarolwyn, and so it's very difficult for her to travel to the town or any other town.

00:12And as I've been going to Cornelli, sometimes because of the nature of the pavement,

00:16the Cadarolwyn is tipping over, or the pavement isn't very straight,

00:20which means that she can't get on public transport, can't go shopping,

00:24sometimes when she wants to go by bus,

00:26the parliament hasn't been raised to the level to allow that bus, and a number of other problems.

00:32One example is Catalina Happer in Pwllheli.

00:34This is true for the lives of many people with disability or disability in communities across Wales.

00:41So we have to look to ensure, in order to plan in the future,

00:45in order to develop sustainable plans,

00:47that they are accessible to people in Cadarolwyn or with disability.

00:53So, what plans are you putting in place to ensure that local authorities

00:58are going to take into consideration the needs of people like Catalina to develop sustainable plans?

01:04I'm very grateful for the question this afternoon, and for really highlighting the importance of placemaking

01:10in terms of our town and city centres.

01:14And it's really important, of course, that any new development is undertaken

01:18in conjunction and in alignment with our planning policies, which do promote that.

01:22But equally, you know, we have towns and villages which go back centuries,

01:28and which haven't necessarily kept pace with the kind of change that we want to see for accessibility.

01:33So, I think that the work which local government should be doing

01:37in engagement with representative groups and with disabled people themselves is really important

01:42in terms of identifying those particular parts within the community

01:46which need to be addressed through investment, or often some relatively simple changes.

01:51And I do think that some of the disabled people's fora that local authorities have

01:56would be perfect places to have those discussions about identifying,

01:59often relatively simple things in the community that could change but make a very big difference.

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