Petition launched to provide more public toilets in Brixton

[editor]

It's clearly not up to date. colacubes back door is not on there.

Neither is Carlton Mansions which is the premier toilet facility for Brixton Villagers.

 

[CH1]

Sally Prentice handed in the petition at the full council meeting tonight - mentioning that there was a hard copy version and a larger online version. Seemed like she was putting forward her constituents views faithfully, but did not seem to inject any particular personal urgency. Maybe she is home safely tucked up in bed before this nocturnal public incontinence begins.

 

[sparkybird]

Hmmm, pop up toilet not up yesterday evening - the area around it had been cordoned off with those road works barriers and a load of 'diggings' stored by it - the diggings looked to be from some major underground electrical cable repair that was taking place outside Iceland.

Which reminded me - what exactly does happen to the wee, when it goes down the pop up.... urine's a pretty good conductor of electricity on account of all the dissolved minerals

OUCH!

 

[CH1]

Which reminded me - what exactly does happen to the wee, when it goes down the pop up.... urine's a pretty good conductor of electricity on account of all the dissolved minerals

The way things are going they might pump it back up again and use it for fuelling Boris's second-hand German water cannons.

 

[CH1]

Regarding the Coors Ice Bar shortly to be opening on Windrush Square - apparently this will be providing toilets INSIDE the tent, but these will not be available for members of the public outside who are desperate for a pee.

 

[Winot]

If you're on the outside pissing in you'll get access to the loos eventually.

 

[leanderman]

Opening hours confirmed:

 

[DietCokeGirl]

"A man in the Dutch city of Amsterdam has been injured after a pop-up public toilet sunk into the ground emerged unexpectedly....."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30254888?ocid=socialflow_twitter

 

[leanderman]

"A man in the Dutch city of Amsterdam has been injured after a pop-up public toilet sunk into the ground emerged unexpectedly....."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30254888?ocid=socialflow_twitter

With all those canals to pee in I can't see why they need pop-up pissoirs - especially ones that rise up like rockets

 

[Twattor]

Opening hours confirmed:

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Obviously ladies are too demure to have need of such facilities

 

[CH1]

Obviously ladies are too demure to have need of such facilities

I think not - there was a shocked post earlier on of an incident outside (opposite) the new restaurant in the Railway Hotel.

 

[Twattor]

I think not - there was a shocked post earlier on of an incident outside (opposite) the new restaurant in the Railway Hotel.

Maybe they should have Shepee dispensers similar to the cup dispensers usually found by water coolers. That would be egalitarian.

 

[CH1]

Maybe they should have Shepee dispensers similar to the cup dispensers usually found by water coolers. That would be egalitarian.

Maybe we should just all be fitted with catheters, to go with the ID chip in the forehead soon needed to enter Brixton bars!

 

[Twattor]

Maybe we should just all be fitted with catheters, to go with the ID chip in the forehead soon needed to enter Brixton bars!

for the avoidance of doubt, the "like" is for the cynicism not the sentiment.

 

[editor]

Just posted this: Brixton’s lack of loos and the Great British Public Toilet Map

 

[felixgolightly]

McDonalds features on that map - but recently in the evenings (after 8pm I think) it becomes 'takeaway only' and closes all the seating as well as the toilets to customers.

 

[editor]

McDonalds features on that map - but recently in the evenings (after 8pm I think) it becomes 'takeaway only' and closes all the seating as well as the toilets to customers.

Yes, I heard that it proved far more trouble that it's worth.

 

[Greebo]

McDonalds features on that map - but recently in the evenings (after 8pm I think) it becomes 'takeaway only' and closes all the seating as well as the toilets to customers.

 

[editor]

A friend took a look inside the underground loos in Windrush Square a while ago. They're in remarkably good condition.

 

[CH1]

A friend took a look inside the underground loos in Windrush Square a while ago. They're in remarkably good condition.

Perhaps they should give them to GLL as the council has proven incapable of running them for the last 30 years.

 

[jimbarkanoodle]

Why are those underground toilets closed? Everyone needs a piss in Brixton once in a while....

I kinda assumed they may have been closed on police advice a good while ago due to drug taking/dealing in the area? or was it literally so the council could save a few quid?

i normally hate charges for toilets (50p at train stations now, GTF!), but maybe 10p donations with a barrier system would at least partially fund keeping them open. obviously the majority of people will jump the barrier (hence 'donation'), but probably better than having piss and vomit everywhere in the nearby vicinity.

 

[CH1]

Why are those underground toilets closed? Everyone needs a piss in Brixton once in a while....

I kinda assumed they may have been closed on police advice a good while ago due to drug taking/dealing in the area? or was it literally so the council could save a few quid?

i normally hate charges for toilets (50p at train stations now, GTF!), but maybe 10p donations with a barrier system would at least partially fund keeping them open. obviously the majority of people will jump the barrier (hence 'donation'), but probably better than having piss and vomit everywhere in the nearby vicinity.

This was a policy back in the Linda Bellos administration in 1986. Where facilities such as public toilets closed, and savings were required, they stayed closed - for ever. The toilets were actually closed because they needed to cut off the water to connect a water fountain outside the library - which no longer exists.

By this logic the Linda Bellos administration was able to secure the savings of 30 years toilet attendants wages (male and female) without making any cuts.

 

[jimbarkanoodle]

cheers for that, some interesting history i wouldn't have known, having been born in 1986.

the logic seems a little outdated now however, given the problem. maybe time to reopen, using some of the new town hall budget.

 

[CH1]

cheers for that, some interesting history i wouldn't have known, having been born in 1986.

the logic seems a little outdated now however, given the problem. maybe time to reopen, using some of the new town hall budget.

That is an excellent idea. One wonders whether Paul McGlone could sneak that into the PFI contract?

 

[editor]

Windrush Square underground public toilet offered for rent as ‘cafe or bar’

 

[Rushy]

I followed a link in the article to a discussion on pubic toilets but it seems to have brought me back here.

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Join the discussion on pubic toilets in Brixton (yes, there is one!) here

 

[Fingers]

Yes, I heard that it proved far more trouble that it's worth.

To be honest I go for a number two in there when my bog has been blocked which happens quite regularly. If it is after 8pm and you want to curl one off, you can usually bust into the Crown and Sceptre bogs without raising many eyebrows.

 

[shakespearegirl]

I'm in Australia at the moment and amazed by the number of free public toilets there are. In Byron Bay and some other seaside towns some of the bars and restaurants don't even have toilets, you are directed to the public facilities.. And they are all clean.

 

[CH1]

I'm tempted to go the viewing (of the toilets outside the Brixton Library that is)
Viewing Arrangements
Viewings will be between 10.00am and 10.30am on the
following dates:
Thursday 21 July
Thursday 28 July
Thursday 4 August

Viewing strictly by prior appointment with the sole
agent:
Anthony King
Lambert Smith Hampton
0207 198 2209
aking@lsh.co.uk

Jeanette Spiers
Lambert Smith Hampton
0207 198 2077
jspiers@lsh.co.uk

 

[Pickman's model]

I'm tempted to go the viewing (of the toilets outside the Brixton Library that is)
Viewing Arrangements
Viewings will be between 10.00am and 10.30am on the
following dates:
Thursday 21 July
Thursday 28 July
Thursday 4 August

Viewing strictly by prior appointment with the sole
agent:
Anthony King
Lambert Smith Hampton
0207 198 2209
aking@lsh.co.uk

Jeanette Spiers
Lambert Smith Hampton
0207 198 2077
jspiers@lsh.co.uk

they're taking the piss