More toilets for Brighton and Hove seafront

Last month, beachgoers faced huge toilet queues as crowds flocked to the seaside to enjoy the easing of lockdown.

Brighton and Hove City Council is installing 24 new toilets at six different seafront sites in efforts to avoid similar scenes.

The locations, and nearest permanent toilets, are:

Brighton

• Opposite the Artist’s Quarter near the carousel. Four loos plus one separate urinal. Distance to nearest permanent loo is Shelter Hall or Dalton’s Bastion 400m

• Next to the basketball court. Four loos plus one separate urinal. Nearest, Shelter Hall 200m

Hove

• Opposite Brunswick Square on Hove Lawns. Four loos plus one separate urinal. Nearest, Kings Esplanade 460m

• Opposite Adelaide Crescent on Hove Lawns. Four loos only. Nearest, Kings Esplanade 175m

• Opposite Grand Avenue on Hove Lawns. Four loos only. Nearest, Kings Esplanade 180m

• Hove St South near Hove Seafront Office. Four loos plus one separate urinal. Nearest, King Alfred 200m

The six new temporary sites will add to the 14 existing permanent loos.

This means there will be 20 public toilets sites in total along the seafront.

This includes the new toilets at Shelter Hall which opened last week.

There are also dozens of loos in the pubs, cafes and restaurants along the beach.

The temporary sites will be in place for 18 weeks until the beginning of September.

They will be cleaned three times a day at the weekends, Bank Holidays and school holidays, and twice on weekdays.

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A spokesman for the council said: “We aim to stock up all our toilets as much as possible with loo paper and soap.

“However, we cannot predict the amount individual people will use or, unfortunately, guarantee against theft.

“We therefore encourage people to carry their own supplies were possible…just in case.”