JUST days after this newspaper revealed how pettifogging planners' refusal of an access ramp forced a disabled Blackburn pensioner to do her banking in the street, we find a wheelchair-bound Ribble Valley mother having to do the same at Whalley.

The reason? The council wouldn't let her bank lower its service till - it would cause obstruction, it said - and that makes the bank believe it has no chance of consent for a ramp either.

Obstruction? Certainly, there is plenty on the part of officialdom for disabled access.

If that's good planning, they have fooled us. But what we are certain of is that it amounts to rotten caring.

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