A campaign has been launched to make the provision of public toilets a legal requirement for central government and local authorities after a slump in the number of loos in town centres, parks and other locations.
Campaign launched to make public toilets a legal requirement in Britain Legalise Loos initiative intended to halt slump in number of conveniences in town centres, parks and other locations.
The organisation said that “14 million people have incontinence issues, 15 million people menstruate, and 16 million people have a disability”.
The Legalise Loos campaign is the brainchild of the British Toilet Association (BTA), a not-for-profit members’ organisation, which estimates that the number of public conveniences has fallen by about 40% since 2000.
The national shortage has been blamed in part on cash-strapped councils cutting expenditure on public loos in order to protect services they are obliged by law to provide for local people.
