Residents of Lake could get a new set of public toilets at a discount price but parish councillors will have to skip to the loo pretty quick.
After another local authority pulled out, a block of Danfo pay-to-use toilets are ready to be shipped out from Sweden and installed if the parish council says yes.
The new toilets — if approved — would stand where the New Road toilets currently are. Lake Parish Council would get a £70,000 discount for a block of 2 unisex and 1 disabled toilet — which would cost 20p to use.
The total cost would be just shy of £200,000, chairman Councillor Paul Brading said, with demolition, installation and some landscaping covered in the bill.
Councillor Brading said replacing the toilets was something the parish council had been discussing for the last 6 years. He said the new toilets would cut the council’s electricity and water costs, as well as generate an income for the authority.
Councillor Adrian Whittaker said the new loos would also help stem the recent spike in anti-social behaviour and vandalism noted at the New Road toilets.
The parish council would borrow the money needed through the Public Works Loan Board. The parish council was looking to approve the toilets, and the loan, at its meeting on Thursday and consult with residents after the decision had been made.
However, concerns about properly consulting residents before taxpayers’ money was spent, raised by Councillor Tig Outlaw, have seen the decision shelved until the 15th December meeting.
Councillor Outlaw agreed the parish council needed to get new toilets but said it must do a proper consultation.
Residents will be able to look at the parish council’s website or in the local ‘Ripples’ magazine which will be sent to every household in the village in the coming weeks for more information and have their say.
The council needs to act quickly
Ha thats a lost hope then
Benefit kept vandals can well afford 20p. And the toilets will be a magnet to them.
Let’s hope their dope supplier’s have large pockets for all those payments in 20p’s.
Yeah they should act quick. Give it another month with the Tories infighting and it will need resetting to 30p.
Act quickly then. My concern is, how and what proposals would be put in place to stop these toilets from being targeted by ‘loo vandals’?
You know the type, the skank rats that take great pleasure in hanging around public conveniences and smashing them up.