Public toilets? That haven’t been closed due to austerity?
Having more public toilets available seems like the obvious solution.
Strict regulations on daily fluid intake and a complete ban on alcoholic drinks below 60% should do it.
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Can’t even fix the potholes how they gonna make more public toilet
Oh, I don’t know.. toilets? Maybe we need to rethink that the places we need to relieve ourselves need to be numerous and comforting.
Free buses out of town into the countryside and back, armed drones, electrified pavements or maybe even public toilets.
They need to sort out decent public loos and also stop utility companies emptying far more effluent into the environment.
As if it’s really that much of a problem. Have a shite in McDonalds like the rest of us or give us more toilets.
There really didn’t need to be a full article on this, did there haha.
She says it in the 2nd paragraph. We need public toilets otherwise people will go where they can.
There are so few public toilets compared to even a couple of years ago, and yet the population of the country continues to grow…
When I used to work at McD’s at Uni, on the overnights, we had the only non-nightclub toilet in the city centre as all the public ones got closed last 10 years.
Post COVID, and we never reopened them. Quite often I’d walk out after my shift at 3am to see both men and women pissing and shitting in the street.
I wonder why…
Humans have been pissing and shitting for ages now, yet we still can’t get this right as a society.
Public toilet provision is a joke.
I wild wee, i have no choice. I love walking 15-20 miles at a time. Where else you meant to wee? I always do it on secluded spots and mainly fields
There’s a strange link between how easily I can access a toilet and how likely I am to use it. If the options not there, well.
More public toilets
You could stop calling it wild toileting, for a start.
It makes it sound like some semi-rugged pursuit which man-buns from Shoreditch spend their time making videos about.
I’ve been touring around Wales and Scotland recently via motorbike. I was astounded by the huge amount of public toilets available compared to England.
It’s disgusting how many have been culled here.
Recently visited Aberaeron in Wales, a little seaside town. Three lots of public toilets all clean and stocked with loo roll, soap etc.
We all remarked on how unusual it was – usually we have to buy a coffee or drink somewhere to use their loo.
Most places we’ve visited in Wales seem similarly civilised. Even the NT forest at Hafod, which was just that, no gift shop, no NT cafe, – even that had a portaloo for visitors.
If Wales can manage it why not England?
I’m sorry but if you have an area with a lot of people late at night, potentially drinking a lot, and there isn’t a bathroom in the area, people are gonna piss up a wall. Its not nice but really you haven’t offered many solutions to the problem otherwise.
The lack of public WCs is an absolute joke. The author blames covid but the fact is there weren’t many before that. The fact that the article completely fails to mention is that a lot were shut decades ago because gay men would have sex in them (this is at a time when being gay was still illegal). It was much safer than risking your neighbours noticing men coming and going and reporting you.
If water companies are just pumping sewage into rivers and the sea, isn’t this cutting out the middle man?
Doing it up a pub wall is a lot different to 30m into the woods.
During Covid lockdown, the likes of cab drivers were crapping in the local bowling green, because everywhere was shut, and there were no public toilets. Dog walkers were reporting there was human excrement everywhere, and some dogs were even eating it.
Cornwall had a huge problem with people taking shits on the beaches because the public loos were shut during the pandemic. Even last year the beaches smelt awful. Why can’t the council put more public loos in??? Surely there’s cheaper option than the current public loos like compost loos (maybe not in London but a lot of places in Cornwall don’t have public loos) or those self cleaning ones that I’ve seen in France before or even those hole in the ground loos also seen in France. The problem won’t get better without public loos.
If you cannot think of the obvious solution then what hope do you have? People need to go to the toilet, it is a basic bodily function. Sometimes people get caught short and go where they can, otherwise it means going in their pants. You want people to stop? Provide toilets. It is not rocket science.
Most councils have been so defunded that most of their budgets go on social care for the elderly, which they are legally obliged to do.
Yes they are called public toilets.
Nowadays i have better luck looking for coffee shops or pubs.
Well, I can’t speak for all the UK but my local council could start by *not* sending someone round to lock up the toilets at 5:30 in the afternoon!
Ok I draw the line at taking a dump in public, but sometime you gotta piss. There’s no harm in a handy bush.
Bring back the public toilets that were all shut down. We’ve lost at least 8 public toilets over the years in my town alone. Including a neighboring town losing 3 that’s up to at least 11.
More public toilets and less businesses being arseholes when you need the loo and there’s nowhere else to go
Is it really that big a deal? Millions of animals pissing all over the place already… a few humans thrown into the mix can’t be that bad？
Is a few people on a night out actually that much worse than 10 million dogs pissing absolutely everywhere constantly.
Cornwall. Population 500k with around 5,000,000 visitors a year. Unfortunately not all of the tourists are lucky enough to own a second home they can use the toilet in.
People are literally shitting in laybys, farm gates and peoples drives due to a lack of provision.
The problem is our council is broke. In the last decade they have had over £900m in cuts coupled with rising costs in all sectors. In all fairness it’s all they can do to keep the lights on in all the care homes let alone provide and maintain public toilets.
We are severely lacking in the basic infrastructure stakes. We need more clean public toilets. More drinking fountains/ refill points, and enforce better toilet standards on trains and public venues
I will draft a white toilet paper , the Bog Bill. Hopefully I’ll pass the motion
Provide decent public toilets. Make it ok to use toilets in pubs and cafes even if you’re not sitting inside to eat.
We have 3 public toilets where I live and every time I’ve needed one it’s been padlocked. No clue what sensible times of the day these things are scheduled to be open.
All the public toilets near me are closed and have been for years
I went to Korea and Japan and its remarkable never being far from a free and clean and open public toilet.
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Public toilets? That haven’t been closed due to austerity?
Having more public toilets available seems like the obvious solution.
Strict regulations on daily fluid intake and a complete ban on alcoholic drinks below 60% should do it.
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Can’t even fix the potholes how they gonna make more public toilet
Oh, I don’t know.. toilets? Maybe we need to rethink that the places we need to relieve ourselves need to be numerous and comforting.
Free buses out of town into the countryside and back, armed drones, electrified pavements or maybe even public toilets.
They need to sort out decent public loos and also stop utility companies emptying far more effluent into the environment.
As if it’s really that much of a problem. Have a shite in McDonalds like the rest of us or give us more toilets.
There really didn’t need to be a full article on this, did there haha.
She says it in the 2nd paragraph. We need public toilets otherwise people will go where they can.
There are so few public toilets compared to even a couple of years ago, and yet the population of the country continues to grow…
When I used to work at McD’s at Uni, on the overnights, we had the only non-nightclub toilet in the city centre as all the public ones got closed last 10 years.
Post COVID, and we never reopened them. Quite often I’d walk out after my shift at 3am to see both men and women pissing and shitting in the street.
I wonder why…
Humans have been pissing and shitting for ages now, yet we still can’t get this right as a society.
Public toilet provision is a joke.
I wild wee, i have no choice. I love walking 15-20 miles at a time. Where else you meant to wee? I always do it on secluded spots and mainly fields
There’s a strange link between how easily I can access a toilet and how likely I am to use it. If the options not there, well.
More public toilets
You could stop calling it wild toileting, for a start.
It makes it sound like some semi-rugged pursuit which man-buns from Shoreditch spend their time making videos about.
I’ve been touring around Wales and Scotland recently via motorbike. I was astounded by the huge amount of public toilets available compared to England.
It’s disgusting how many have been culled here.
Recently visited Aberaeron in Wales, a little seaside town. Three lots of public toilets all clean and stocked with loo roll, soap etc.
We all remarked on how unusual it was – usually we have to buy a coffee or drink somewhere to use their loo.
Most places we’ve visited in Wales seem similarly civilised. Even the NT forest at Hafod, which was just that, no gift shop, no NT cafe, – even that had a portaloo for visitors.
If Wales can manage it why not England?
I’m sorry but if you have an area with a lot of people late at night, potentially drinking a lot, and there isn’t a bathroom in the area, people are gonna piss up a wall. Its not nice but really you haven’t offered many solutions to the problem otherwise.
The lack of public WCs is an absolute joke. The author blames covid but the fact is there weren’t many before that. The fact that the article completely fails to mention is that a lot were shut decades ago because gay men would have sex in them (this is at a time when being gay was still illegal). It was much safer than risking your neighbours noticing men coming and going and reporting you.
If water companies are just pumping sewage into rivers and the sea, isn’t this cutting out the middle man?
Doing it up a pub wall is a lot different to 30m into the woods.
During Covid lockdown, the likes of cab drivers were crapping in the local bowling green, because everywhere was shut, and there were no public toilets. Dog walkers were reporting there was human excrement everywhere, and some dogs were even eating it.
Cornwall had a huge problem with people taking shits on the beaches because the public loos were shut during the pandemic. Even last year the beaches smelt awful. Why can’t the council put more public loos in??? Surely there’s cheaper option than the current public loos like compost loos (maybe not in London but a lot of places in Cornwall don’t have public loos) or those self cleaning ones that I’ve seen in France before or even those hole in the ground loos also seen in France. The problem won’t get better without public loos.
If you cannot think of the obvious solution then what hope do you have? People need to go to the toilet, it is a basic bodily function. Sometimes people get caught short and go where they can, otherwise it means going in their pants. You want people to stop? Provide toilets. It is not rocket science.
Most councils have been so defunded that most of their budgets go on social care for the elderly, which they are legally obliged to do.
Yes they are called public toilets.
Nowadays i have better luck looking for coffee shops or pubs.
Well, I can’t speak for all the UK but my local council could start by *not* sending someone round to lock up the toilets at 5:30 in the afternoon!
Ok I draw the line at taking a dump in public, but sometime you gotta piss. There’s no harm in a handy bush.
Bring back the public toilets that were all shut down. We’ve lost at least 8 public toilets over the years in my town alone. Including a neighboring town losing 3 that’s up to at least 11.
More public toilets and less businesses being arseholes when you need the loo and there’s nowhere else to go
Is it really that big a deal? Millions of animals pissing all over the place already… a few humans thrown into the mix can’t be that bad？
Is a few people on a night out actually that much worse than 10 million dogs pissing absolutely everywhere constantly.
Cornwall. Population 500k with around 5,000,000 visitors a year. Unfortunately not all of the tourists are lucky enough to own a second home they can use the toilet in.
[Here is a map of our public toilets.](https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1U46me32dzGao61EtsaKC4-oz0Dw&hl=en&ll=50.42370480358514%2C-4.940494999999998&z=9) There are up to 207 of them if they are all working at the same time.
People are literally shitting in laybys, farm gates and peoples drives due to a lack of provision.
The problem is our council is broke. In the last decade they have had over £900m in cuts coupled with rising costs in all sectors. In all fairness it’s all they can do to keep the lights on in all the care homes let alone provide and maintain public toilets.
We are severely lacking in the basic infrastructure stakes. We need more clean public toilets. More drinking fountains/ refill points, and enforce better toilet standards on trains and public venues
I will draft a white toilet paper , the Bog Bill. Hopefully I’ll pass the motion
Provide decent public toilets. Make it ok to use toilets in pubs and cafes even if you’re not sitting inside to eat.
We have 3 public toilets where I live and every time I’ve needed one it’s been padlocked. No clue what sensible times of the day these things are scheduled to be open.
All the public toilets near me are closed and have been for years
I went to Korea and Japan and its remarkable never being far from a free and clean and open public toilet.