PLANS to improve wheelchair access and make Lord's Walk in Amesbury a safer place have been drawn up by Amesbury town council.

Councillors are proposing to implement a number of improvements, including widening and relaying the current path and creating a number of platforms by the water's edge.

They also plan to create parking spaces for two cars at both entrances, ensuring there is plenty of space for disabled visitors and that the gates are wide enough for wheelchair-users.

Councillor Fred Westmoreland, deputy chairman of the council's general purposes committee, said: "All we want to do is make parts of Lord's Walk wheelchair accessible. Anything that we own ought to be accessible to everyone."

To improve safety and prevent people slipping in wet weather, the council has suggested strengthening the wooden bridge with two steel handrails and fitting a single handrail from the bridge to the Ratfyn Road entrance.

Steps will also be filled with a slip-resistant material and any branches that are obscuring the streetlights are to be cut back.

The project will be funded with money from Amesbury town council and Community First.

Work is due to start in the New Year and Mr Westmoreland said he hoped it would be finished by the spring.