Locations in Sussex are among the best in the UK for the proportion of accessible public toilets, according to new statistics.
Bathroom company QS Supplies scoured the Great British Public Toilet Map website to find the number of public toilets in every council, city and London borough and then calculated the proportion of accessible bathrooms against the total number for each area.
Hastings placed eight in the standings with the total number of public toilets listed as 25, 17 of which are accessible.
Brighton and Hove came 11th , with the total number of public toilets listed as 112, 73 of which are accessible.
Worthing placed 13th, with the total number of toilets at 36, 23 of which are accessible.
And Crawley came 15th, with the total number of toilets at 58, 16 of which are accessible.
The Great British Public Toilet Map tracks publicly available toilets using crowd-sourced information from users and data from councils and other organisations.
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It only logs free-to-use toilets which the public can use without having to ask – so “customers only” loos are excluded.
As these figures are largely based on submissions from the public, they may not reflect the full range of facilities available in the area.
However, the research comes after toilet controversy in Brighton and Hove.
Brighton and Hove City Council had planned to close 18 public toilets in parks and on the seafront.
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But it performed a U-turn on those plans and said it would reopen public toilets, although facilities would stay shut at The Level and Prince’s Place, by Pavilion Gardens, in Brighton, and at the car park in Norton Road, Hove, due to “significant issues”.
The council said it would not be able to reopen them until continuing problems had been resolved.
Funding to keep public toilets open was agreed at the council’s annual budget meeting last month, along with a further £1.1 million to refurbish existing toilets.
The toilets set to reopen next month following refurbishment are:
- Dalton’s Bastion, on the lower promenade near the zip wire, in Brighton
- King’s Esplanade, Hove
- Saltdean Undercliff
- Station Road, Portslade
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