VIDEO: Joy as four-year battle for disabled facility ends

Campaigners have been celebrating after the news a new Changing Places facility will be created in Swan Walk.

Campaigners have been rejoicing after a four-year-long battle to get a much needed facility for the disabled built in Horsham town centre came to an end.

Swan Walk is set to create its first Changing Places toilets as part of a new scheme to rejuvenate the shopping centre.

Plans to redevelop the former BHS unit along with the centre’s toilets were approved by Horsham District Council earlier this month.

As part of the works the new disabled toilet facility, which comes complete with a changing bench and a hoist, will be installed and the announcement has been met with joy by Horsham campaigner Samantha Buck.

She said: “I’m just delighted, there are so many things we can now access.”

Samantha began the battle for a Changing Places toilet in the town more than four years ago.

Her ten-year-old son Alfie was born with severe brain damage and has quadriplegic Cerebral Palsy. He uses a wheelchair and Samantha has been forced to change him on the floors of public toilets as there are currently few facilities with equipment needed to help him.