The opening hours of five toilets under jurisdiction of a council need to be reviewed due to uncertainty surrounding their funding.
A council is proposing to close or sell nine public conveniences as a means of saving up to £30,000. Anglesey council has not ruled out the toilets being used for other purposes, depending upon planning permission.
Councillors rejected a release of thousands of pounds to help rent out public toilets for use as a restaurant on Tuesday night (September 27, 2011). A scheme was put forward to hire out the public conveniences in Epping, near London, in a bid to save in maintenance costs while boosting rental revenue.
Council officials have asked residents for their views on controversial plans to axe free toilets but they only got a handful of replies.
The Teesdale Action Partnership (AAP) has been praised for allocating £60,000 for a project to bring public toilets to a local town, with county councillors Richard Bell, Barbara Harrison and George Richardson contributing further funds.
Taking over the maintenance of a closed toilet block is one of the suggestions a town council is taking on board to make up for a paucity of provision. The plan is to charge people 20p to use the loos.
Beach toilet facilities have had to be closed from public access after louts caused widespread damage over the course of a weekend. The toilets, in Monmouth Beach Car Park in West Dorset, need considerable repair work.
An abuser of aerosols has been given a restraining order regarding public conveniences. The woman from Scotland has been restricted from going into certain facilities due to her misuse of solvents.
New plans for public toilets in Cambridge were thrown out because they were not deemed to be fit for purpose. Leader of Cambridge City Council Cllr Sian Reid explained that the proposals for the Lion Yard retail complex were not about providing good city centre public toilets.
Backbenchers hoping to sneak ‘forty winks’ were no doubt woken up by forthright language an MP used to plead for toilets at a rail station. MP Emily Thornberry made the plea regarding Crossrail, the new line across London.