A CAMPAIGN group for disabled people has backed a train station newsagent who is being forced to close his shop to make way for a lift.
David Wool, who has been at Redhill station for 30 years, has to be out by the end of the month to make way for a lift and access ramp.
But Alison White, of the Surrey Coalition of Disabled People, who previously wrote a letter in support of the new access plans, says she does not want to see a long standing shop disappear.
She said: "It's very said if a family business did go as a result of a lift. We support the principle of him staying somewhere in the station."
Mr Wool has just one week left to save his shop and although he says he supports plans to make the station more accessible, he does not want to lose his business.
Mr Wool, who has owned the shop since 1983, has now called on Southern to move him temporarily during the redevelopment before relocating him somewhere in the station permanently.
During development work in 1989 his shop was given temporary accommodation in the subway.