Portsmouth City Council has come under fire after closing a public toilet block and will have to answer a petition asking for the public conveniences to be reopened, a news report in the local media has revealed.
Stoke-on-Trent City Council was forced to revert its decision to close several public toilets in the city following a public consultation, which rejected the idea, a news report in the local media has revealed.
The local authority was looking at closing the toilet block in Stafford Street, Hanley, along with facilities in Stoke, Longton, Tunstall and Burslem in order to save £100,000 from next year’s budget.
The Hayes Island Snack Bar in Cardiff has stepped up and decided to lend local authorities a helping hand in order to keep the historic Hayes public toilets open, a news report in the local media has revealed.
Residents in the town of Biddulph, Staffordshire, have started a campaign to have a block of shut-down public toilets reopen, a news report in the local media has revealed.
Campaigners are arguing that the elderly and disabled people living in the area where the public used to operate find themselves distraught, not to mention that the closest public toilets are much more difficult to access.
Keeping public toilets open and running is considered to be “essential” to a £12 million project that will form part of the regeneration of an often troubled part of Bournemouth town centre, a news report in the local media has recently revealed.
Three public toilets in Caerphilly face closure as the local council committee has to make savings of £14.53m in 2014/15, in order to comply with the UK Government’s austerity measures, a news report in the local business media has revealed.
Public toilets located on Jubilee Road in Parkstone, Poole, Dorset, may be closed and replaced by a community scheme, a news report in the local media has suggested.
Mayor of Bristol, George Ferguson, has scrapped plans to shut down 22 public toilets across the city, following a public consultation over which budget cuts should be implemented, a news report in the local media has revealed.
According to the paper, last year, the mayor put forward plans for cuts amounting to £83m from the city council’s budget, which included closing toilets and scrapping bus subsidies. But following a public consultation, nearly 20 of his budget proposals have now been removed or changed.
The current sub-standard public toilets on the Exmouth seafront are going to be replaced in the near future with brand-new, state-of-the-art facilities, a brand-new report in the local media has revealed.
The Exmouth council has decided that the Queen’s Drive toilets opposite the Harbour View Café are costly to maintain and do not meet current British standard, and that replacing them altogether was the best possible approach.
The Cornish town of Lostwithiel has been left without any public toilets after the town council failed to come to an agreement with Cornwall Council regarding their take-over, a news report in the local media has revealed.
The two parties had been in negotiation for almost two years about ownership of the toilets, plus the Cattle Market car park, which it leases from County Hall, and the old Market building, now home to a complementary health clinic.