THAME Town Council is to help the family of a young Thame man injured in a tragic fall, to provide an independent living space for him.
19 year-old Martin Gadd, known to his friends as ‘Gadget’, was paralysed from the waist down a year ago and is currently undergoing physiotherapy and training at Stoke Mandeville hospital. His family live in a four-bedroomed house on Lee Park which is unsuitable for someone in a wheelchair and so approached the council to sell them a narrow stip of land adjacent to their property on which to build a self-contained annex for Martin’s use.
At a meeting of the council’s Policy and Resources committee recently, it agreed to donate the strip of land free of charge to the Gadd family, subject to planning permission for the building being granted.
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