A 'recluse' mum and wheelchair user who lost her long-standing fight to get a ramp installed at her home, is marking a 10-year anniversary of being "trapped" indoors. Dawn Steel is a mum-of-two and cancer survivor who had to resort to launching a legal bid to facilitate easier access to her flat.
Dawn moved into her home in 2013 and following a knee replacement operation, has been a wheelchair user since. This means she has not left the house independently for nearly a decade.
The disagreement between Dawn and the company that oversees management of the flat in Shirley, has led to Dawn claiming that red tape had 'stripped her of independence'. Freeholder Pennycuick Collins was blamed for holding up the process, reports BirminghamLive.
