The future of a public toilet block at one of the most popular moorland visitor attractions in Ilkley, West Yorkshire, hangs in the balance as efforts go on district-wide to save other facilities.
A local council has come under fire for grossly over-estimating the costs of refurbishing a public toilet block and deciding to sell it, rather than bring it back into use.
Calderdale Council has proposed selling the old toilets near Brighouse bus station because the costs associated to their refurbishment were simply too high – an estimate 200,000 pounds.
A group of concerned citizens in Woking has signed a petition asking for the replacement of an existing public toilet which has an unpredictable cleaning system with a safer model, rather than simply removing it altogether, a news report in the local media can reveal.
The Goldsworth Park Community Association (GPCA), Woking Hockey Club and other users of the outdoor areas and sports facilities by Goldwater Lodge in Wishbone Way want new toilets to be installed in the area.
A local council has decided to submit an entry to the Loo of the Year Awards after refurbishing the public conveniences in the area.
Epping Town Council has carried out improvement works on the public toilets at Bakers Lane in an £85,000 project and reopened them in January, a news report on the matter can reveal.
All entries receive a grading, ranging from Bronze, Silver, Gold or Platinum, with the National Awards Presentation Ceremony being held in December.
The public toilets installed in Skegness’s Tower Esplanade toilets near the Festival car park are to re-open soon, after being refurbished as part of a £500,000 public toilet improvement programme.
Public toilets located in The Triangle, Belper, Derbyshire, could be completely demolished and the land they occupy sold to residential developers, should the Amber Valley Borough Council decide to select this plan of action out of the several options currently being taken under consideration.
Local authorities across Wales could be made accountable for the provision of enough public toilets according to new legislation currently being drafted by the Welsh government.
Under the new rules, councils would be required to assess, regularly review, and meet the local demand for all the public conveniences they manage, including those in libraries and sports halls, a news source has revealed.
If passed, it is thought it could be the first duty of its type to be introduced in the UK.
Members of the North East Lincs Disability Access Group have decided to start campaigning against the closure of public toilets in Grimsby, some of which had disabled access.
According to a news report in the local media, the group agreed to write to the council in protest and lobby ward councillors.
Customers in urgent need of using the public toilets at Swansea’s Quadrant Bus Station will have to spend 10p more than they are right now after the Council decided to push up the access fees in order to balance the books, a news report in the local media has revealed.
The existing toilets in several South Norfolk towns such as Diss, Loddon, Wymondham and Harleston are set to be replaced by much more modern public conveniences, a news article in the local media can reveal.
Following a series of consultation with local businesses, South Norfolk Council decided that the state and cleanliness of public conveniences was paramount for increasing footfall across the aforementioned market towns.