“I’m embarrassed,” was the reaction of a man caught writing abusive messages on toilet doors.
A councillor has criticised slow progress on the re-opening of a public toilet block situated in the Lake District. Copeland Borough Council’s talks for the takeover of the block, which shut on April 1, are stalling.
Combating drug abuse is one of the reasons given for revamping a railway station toilet. Chiefs want to touch up the travel hub facilities in Worcester to make them less attractive to drug addicts. The rail operator has submitted plans to Worcester City Council, and applied for consent to alter the listed building.
An auction company reflected upon the highly unusual sale of a Victorian public convenience which will be transformed into a dwelling. Auction House East Anglia described the buyer as a "builder specialising in unusual buildings" who planned to develop it for his family.
An unusual building has come up for sale on the property market – a former public convenience. The city council is accepting sealed offers for the ground floor toilet in Leicester centre which is deemed surplus to requirements. The local authority said subject to planning permission the site could be developed in a number of different ways.
Demand for public toilets in a beauty spot was overflowing during the recent warm weather. Chris McGregor, who has lived on the western edge of the Meadows in Edinburgh for 40 years, discovered a queue forming one hot Saturday afternoon for a portable toilet that building contractors had brought in outside her home.
A councillor has commented on a scheme which allows London shoppers to use toilet facilities.
A Cambridgeshire council is warned tourism could be affected if its plans to close over half the district’s public toilets go ahead. Councillor Roger Green is one of those who are warning Fenland Council against cutting the budget for conveniences.
A council cannot afford to keep its public toilets open, so is embarking on a programme of mass closures. More than a dozen will be shut at Highland Council and it will restrict opening times at others to help its cash-pressed coffers.
A councillor blasted a local authority for banning members of the public from using town hall toilets. Conservative leader at Ealing Council Jason Stacey fumed after learning of the town hall ban, the second in as many years: "How can you expect businesses to open up their toilets to the public when the council won’t open up the town hall’s?