Key Services

This page lists all the centrally located key services that are considered accessible for people with mobility issues.  You can locate these services on our accessible map.

We have excluded those key service providers that are inaccessible to wheelchair users, currently lack reasonable adjustments, or provide only a partial service.  This includes Wells City Pharmacy (adjacent to the GP practices), Wells Postal Sorting Office (West Street), Barclays Bank (limited hours within Town Hall), Specsavers and Boots Opticians (High Street), Santander (Market Place). 

GP Services

• Wells Health Centre
  • Disabled parking available
  • Automated door
  • Wheelchair accessible toilet
• Wells City Practice
  • Disabled parking available
  • Automated door
  • Wheelchair accessible toilets

Dental

• Rock House Dental Practice
  • Disabled parking nearby
  • Call button at front to access via portable ramp
  • Wheelchair accessible toilet
• Priory Dental
  • Blue badge parking adjacent in Priory Road on yellow lines
  • Level entry to all services
  • Wheelchair accessible toilet
• Bupa Dental Care Wells
  • Call button at front to access via portable ramp
  • Disabled toilet restricted by narrow doorway
• Wells Orthodontists
  • Dedicated disabled parking bay
  • Stair lift to reception and services difficult for wheel chair users
  • Disabled toilet

Pharmacies

• Boots Pharmacy
  • Automatic doors with level entry
• Tesco Pharmacy
  • Level access from car park
  • Awkward pedestrian access from Princes Road pavement and Tucker Street
  • Good parking and disabled toilet

Opticians and audiologists

• Millicans & Mansfield Opticians
  • Narrow pavement access from one side only
  • Level access from pavement
• Vision Express
  • Level access from pavement to large consulting room
• Clear2Hear Ear Wax Removal
  • Approach off Sadler Street into courtyard is a bit bumpy
  • Level access into premises

Banks

• NatWest
  • Wheelchair access not possible from High Street
  • Level access from back of building via NatWest car park off South Street
• Lloyds
  • Level access from High Street
    

Post Office

• Wells Post Office, Tucker Street
  • Level access from Tucker Street.
  • Pending improvements to drop kerbs on nearby pavement network many wheelchair users will have difficulties getting to these premises.
• St. Thomas Street Post Office
  • Level access across petrol station forecourt
  • Disabled toilet freely accessible

Supermarkets

• Morrisons
  • Level access
  • Good parking, disabled toilets and café
  • Located near start of multi-user accessible Strawberry Line footpath
• Tesco
  • Level access from car park
  • Awkward pedestrian access from Princes Road pavement and Tucker Street
  • Good parking and disabled toilet
• Waitrose
  • Level access
  • Good parking with disabled bays at front
  • Two disabled toilets and café
• Lidl
  • Level access from all approaches
  • Good parking with disabled bays 
  • Disabled toilet