A mother who took to social media to highlight the challenges her daughter faces using a wheelchair in streets near her home has seen her video viewed more than a million times.

Leah's nine-year-old daughter Ella has Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) and uses a motorised wheelchair but has difficulty navigating pathways near their home in Loughborough due to cobbles, a lack of dropped kerbs and parked cars.

The video posted on TikTok shows Ella's wheelchair struggling to move along the pavement and having to manoeuvre around parked vehicles.

SMA is a rare genetic condition that affects motor neurons, the nerve cells in the spinal cord responsible for controlling muscle movement.

"Day to day, everything is naturally harder for us," Leah told the BBC.

"I made a video on TikTok about a simple walk back to our house and it got quite a lot of traction because of how difficult the pathways are.

"There are no dropped kerbs, there are cobbled roads and things like that."

The video shows Ella in her wheelchair having to use specific sections of the pathway to navigate the route home, while also struggling to travel across cobbled areas.

"It's really difficult to do something as simple as crossing the road because of these obstacles," Leah said.

"Half the time we have to go on the road to get all the way through to the gate of our complex."

Leah is calling for the removal of "outdated" cobbles, as well as more dropped kerbs to make road crossings easier and safer for wheelchair users.

"We definitely need more dropped kerbs and a standard distance between them," she said.

"As for the cobbles, I don't think they serve a purpose nowadays. Some people comment saying they were around long before us, but they date back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

"In the complex alone where we live, there are two other wheelchair users. They use manual wheelchairs, so it's slightly different but it's still difficult for them.

"Ella has three friends who also use wheelchairs.

"Everything is inaccessible. We have a park on the complex and there isn't a single piece of equipment Ella can use, yet we're paying ground rent for something we cannot access. We live in a world that isn't accessible."

Ella said: "It's a bit annoying. It needs to be a lot less bumpy and we have to use different parts of the path instead of just travelling straight along it. We have to go on the edge, which isn't very safe, and sometimes we have to go on the road.

"If a car was coming really fast, it might not see me, and that's really dangerous."

A Leicestershire County Council spokesperson said: "Accessibility for Leicestershire residents across the transport network is a key priority for the county council.

"We'd like to encourage the family to get in touch with our highways team directly via our website or phone line to kickstart an investigation into those issues."

Jelson Homes said: "This play area currently remains in the freehold of the company but maintained and managed by a private management company.

"We would support any adaptability to make the scheme more inclusive. However, this will need to first be discussed with and subsequently funded by Charnwood Borough Council."

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