Toilet site (click) the story so far.
The reconstruction of the 'unlucky' Market Street toilets has run into more problems.
It seems that a mistake by Quantity Surveyors early on in the project, meant that when the commercial tenders to construct the replacement toilets were opened, they were all at least 100% over budget. It seems that the original estimate obtained by MHDC was incorrect, and the project was too ambitious for the funds available.
Rather than reduce the quality of the build in this prominant position, it has now been decided to upgrade the Gents and Ladies toilets to accomodate additional equipment and do away with the Disabled toilet.
Quite how this decision will be met by Disabled campaigners remains to be seen. The following from a recent Mencap campaign.
Across the country, over 230,000 people need Changing Places toilets - with a changing bench, hoist, and space for a wheelchair and two carers. Without them, carers are often forced to change their family members on dirty toilet floors. This is unhygienic, degrading and undignified.
It would seem to ask Disabled visitors to share facilities with the general public is a step in the wrong direction as Public toilets are nearly always in a less clean state than Disabled toilets.
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We need clean toilets for everyone - even able-bodied people deserve these. It's not that difficult, check out the toilets in Droitwich - award-winners they are! MHDC has a history of providing disgusting toilets; it is to be hoped that they will make sure that the new toilets are looked after properly from Day One. I suggest Town Council appoints a 'toilet warden' to monitor the toilets and report any drop in quality to the local councillors and this blog!
To me, it looks like the site isn't actually big enough for three buildings!
So they are going to merge the disabled into the main toilets for financial reasons... are we sure that is the real reason, or are they hiding a measurement error?
I'm sure it did fit, but just not enough money.
Simple! should have saved the old toilets ,another Tenbury farce in the making
'another Tenbury farce in the making'
yup why didnt they pull this earlier and base the whole elections around it?
Wrong Elections. Toilets are MHDC, Elections were WCC. (And Europe)
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