A dated toilet block in Lake will be demolished over the coming weeks to make way for brand new, £200,000 modular public conveniences. 1 disabled and 2 unisex toilets are to be put in place at the junction of New Road and Sandown Road, once the existing brick-built structure is demolished. Locals and visitors alike will have to spend more than a penny when installed though, with a 20p charge to be implemented. Works are expected to begin next week and be completed by the end of August. Lake Parish Council secured the toilet block with a £70,000 discount as another local authority pulled out of an order with Danfo, the Swedish company supplying the new loos. New toilets have been on the cards for more than 6 years, with hopes that the Council’s electricity and water costs will be slashed. It is also hoped that the new loos will stem anti-social behaviour and vandalism. Meanwhile, work to reopen the toilets on the Revetment between Sandown and Shanklin is underway.
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£200,000 ? For 3 toilets and that’s with £70,000 discount! .Could build 3 bed house with two toilets, bathroom and fitted kitchen and garage for that.
But you have to remember its not the councils money so they don’t give a hoot
Refurbish them for half the cost
Well with discount the new ones will still be £130,000.00 ? Even if that isolated statistic were to be believed, how much electricity and water ‘saved’ could have been bought with £130,000.00 ??
Then the demolishing and installation costs.
Then, how long will these marvellous new toilets actually last? Doubt it will be the many decades the current ones have been there.
Oh, and is this arranged by the same clowns that have overseen the permanent closure of the only toilets on the revetment?? Where 100s people a day walk past and two cafes within a stones throw are trying to make a living?
Still no brakes on the gravy train of public spending is there. All too easy to do with other people’s money.
How come you can build a 3 bed house for the price of a toilet block? Do the council just go with the first quote they get? £200,000
Why are we going to a Swedish company what is wrong with a Isle of Wight or English company, our money should stay with us and we do a quality job, not a quick fix cheap rubbish job, especially for £200,000
Absolutely disgusting, going to the toilet is a necessity so shouldn’t be charged. There is also nothing wrong with the old toilets which will be better built than the new ones and it’s a toilet so it doesn’t need to be fancy.
So, tell us who’s going to pay for the building, upkeep, cleaning, toilet paper etc etc etc? Presumably the local residents on their Council Tax. So, you’re saying you want people to pay more Council Tax? Not a popular idea that.
Public conveniences are absolutely something that our council tax should be going towards. Plenty of other rubbish they can stop spending on.
Replacing a brick-built structure with a piece of crap glorified portacabin makes no sense whatsoever. The existing building could have been refurbished by local tradesmen for a fraction of the cost and it would last far longer.
So have I got this right? We’re going to knock down a bricks and mortar building to put some modular crap there which will look run down in a couple of years, and completely dilapidated in a decade….at a cost of 200k.
You could make a really nice job of a refurb on the current building for half of what they’re gonna spend on this modular crap
Clad it, or K-rend if you want to make it look more modern…
Senseless waste of money.
Do they even know how many people use them and will use them, before splashing out on this?
Reckon those pay per use toilets at Lake Cliff are hardly used.
All the investment and focus should be on the Revetment ones, which are well used all year round.
More 50p to have a P I S S toilet blocks being built.
P*ss up the wall, much cheaper.
Over prices by dodgy contractors who want to line their own pockets
they pay their employees pittance and live off the cream themselves.
Why do we have to have unisex loos? Not very nice for the ladies after a man has been in there and pissed all over the seat.
The worst toilets I’ve ever used have always been unisex, no offence to you men but we definitely have different standards when it comes to deficating lol burger king toilets in Newport are always covered in pubic hairs and piss on the floor with the stained seat always left up! Not very nice for us ladies at all.
Why can’t they fit these in the existing brick shell? Typical council to go ott.
They can. Danfo proudly state that they can retro fit any existing building.
Our council just like to piss money up the wall!!! I’ve decided I don’t want to spend a penny.
What does dated mean, when the current block is vastly superior to the plastic boxes that are going to take their place?
£200,000? They are not worth £2,000. I and others will not use them because they are unsanitary, it is almost impossible to enter without rubbing your legs against the toilet bowl. Likely this is the intention of the council from the beginning, so they can remove them entirely saying they “weren’t used”.