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Hilton Pocock, 54, is largely paralysed on his left side and struggles to get his medicine from Unichem Terrace End after three car parks and a bench he rested on were removed.
The Palmerston North City Council’s partnership with private businesses to build semi-permanent “parklets” for seating and dining is intended to make the city's streets more pleasant.
But Judy Olsen-Pocock, 74, said some were making life more difficult for people with limited mobility, and if it were clearer that the prominently branded parklets were public spaces it would have saved her and her son months of struggle.