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Accessible Beach Huts installed in Southsea
The News, Portsmouth
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25/03/2025
Accessible beach huts have been installed along Eastney seafront. The official opening took place on Monday, March 24, 2025.
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My name is Mark Collings, I'm the Seafront Operations Officer for Portsmouth City Council.
00:04
So tell me where we are and what we're doing here today.
00:06
So we're down at Easton Beach at the beach huts where we've had four new beach huts installed
00:12
that allow people with mobility issues to be able to access the beach huts.
00:17
The previous ones to our right have been here for some time but very difficult to get down here
00:22
in a wheelchair or if you've got any sort of restrictions.
00:24
So we've added some new ones on the end which have got some ramps and make life easy for access.
00:30
We've built a nice new path that's wheelchair friendly that allows wheelchairs to cross the shingle
00:35
which wasn't possible until this project came about.
00:38
How long has this project been sort of in the making?
00:41
It's taken about three years to get to this point.
00:43
We've had to go through planning permission to add to the beach and we're in a protected beach
00:48
so that's really quite hard work to be able to do what seems to be quite a simple project.
00:52
So we had to jump through all the planning hoops to be able to do it
00:55
and over the last winter we've been able to finally get on with the build.
00:59
And tell me what the reaction's been like?
01:01
Really positive so far. We've had a couple of people come down and test it
01:05
and we've got other people booked in to sort of have a go as well
01:07
and I think it's really positive news for people to be able to come find themselves
01:12
accessing things that they were once not able to get to.
01:15
And I understand you can rent them on a weekly basis, is that correct?
01:19
We rent them on a weekly basis throughout the summer, that's right, yep.
01:22
And then in the winter we do a weekend hire as well for those that are hardy
01:25
and might want to come down in the colder weather.
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