£500,000 public toilet improvement programme announced in East Lindsey

HALF a million pounds will be spent to improve 24 public toilets in East Lindsey, East Lindsey District Council has announced as it continues to invest in its front line services.

The Council’s Executive Board has today (January 17, 2012) agreed a programme of works over the next four years, which will see public toilets significantly improved to make them more pleasant to use and modern.

Toilets included in the improvement programme include Briar Way, Skegness; Lumley Square, Skegness; North Parade, Skegness; Tower Esplanade, Skegness; Princess Parade, Skegness; Eastgate, Louth; Burgh Le Marsh Market Place; St Lawrence Street, Horncastle; The Dunes, Mablethorpe; Queen’s Park, Mablethorpe; Seacroft Road , Mablethorpe; Central Promenade, Mablethorpe; Roman Bank, Sutton on Sea ; York Road, Sutton on Sea; Market Place, Wragby; Bus Station, Louth; Brooks Walk, Wainfleet; Castle Lane, Coningsby; High Street, Spilsby and Spa Road, Woodhall Spa.

Each public toilet will be refurbished with new sanitary fittings, low energy vandal resistant steel hand driers, automatic chrome mixer taps; improved ventilation, new wall tiling, internal decorations, new soap dispensers and improved signage.

Seacroft Road and Central Promenade Public Toilets in Mablethorpe and Eastgate Public Toilets in Louth will undergo complete refurbishments, including infrastructural changes, totalling £235,000.   This investment will also include adapting the Seacroft Road public toilet into a Changing Places toilet, which means it can be used by people with profound and multiple learning disabilities, as well as other serious impairments such as spinal injuries, muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis or an acquired brain injury, who often need extra facilities to allow them to use the toilets comfortably.

The programme of works will see the closure and demolition of the Roman Bank public toilet in Skegness, which is a seasonal public toilet that is in a very poor condition due to age.

Portfolio Holder for the Environment at the District Council, Councillor Steve Newton, said: “There is nothing worse than being caught short and forced to use substandard public toilets.  We hope that by making this investment we will significant improve the quality of the public toilet provision in our District for local people and visitors to the area.