The problem, as always, is one of money. Either a local council has to provide them for free at cost to taxpayer or they need to be pay toilets. And if you want clean public toilets, you also need at least one full-time attendant (or equivalent).
The first thing to go - if there was ever one in the first place - is the attendant because the council sees a £20+k a year bill they can save and instead send one person around in a van to all the public toilets. “Only one person and one dirty mop required! The public will never notice!”
Then the serious vandalism starts because there’s no permanent presence to discourage the vandals. And then: “Oh no, who would have thought this would happen? These toilets must be in a vandalism hotspot and need to be closed permanently!”
This leaves pay toilets, and guess what? The companies and councils that run these still hate having to pay attendants because its a case of wanting to keep that money for themselves, and/or else the price has to be jacked up so high to cover the running costs that people wouldn’t want to pay to use them.
The last pay toilet I used was 20p and that was a long time ago. I expect they’re 50p or £1 now.
The problem, as always, is one of money. Either a local council has to provide them for free at cost to taxpayer or they need to be pay toilets. And if you want clean public toilets, you also need at least one full-time attendant (or equivalent).
The first thing to go - if there was ever one in the first place - is the attendant because the council sees a £20+k a year bill they can save and instead send one person around in a van to all the public toilets. “Only one person and one dirty mop required! The public will never notice!”
Then the serious vandalism starts because there’s no permanent presence to discourage the vandals. And then: “Oh no, who would have thought this would happen? These toilets must be in a vandalism hotspot and need to be closed permanently!”
This leaves pay toilets, and guess what? The companies and councils that run these still hate having to pay attendants because its a case of wanting to keep that money for themselves, and/or else the price has to be jacked up so high to cover the running costs that people wouldn’t want to pay to use them.
The last pay toilet I used was 20p and that was a long time ago. I expect they’re 50p or £1 now.