The Platform Lift Company will be fulfilling orders from other lift trade companies as well as supplying commercial and residential markets with Extrema access products.
Access
The council is employing 12 city centre stewards who will help with advice and support for anyone who needs it, but also give personalised accessibility advice to people with disabilities.
People can use it to find and share advice and ideas of things to do without leaving the house.
Irish Ferries has introduced the scheme across its entire fleet.
Tesco spearheaded the installation this month, installing nine across a number of its stores in the United Kingdom.
The council allocated £9,000 from its reserves to beach wheelchairs in this year’s budget.
It follows a select committee report which found that pavement parking was problematic for 95% of respondents who are visually impaired and 98% of wheelchair users.
The Government has allocated £2m to NHS Trusts specifically to provide Changing Places assisted accessible toilets.
Rishi Sunak is also expected to confirm that Changing Places toilets will be compulsory in new public buildings by the end of the year.
The enhancements - funded through the Access for All programme - will include new lifts, accessible toilets and customer information screens.
