Wilmslow Town Council has submitted plans for the provision of public toilets in the town park.
The proposal is to erect a block containing two public toilets and incorporating a kiosk in the corner of the car park at The Carrs, adjacent to the children's playground. This will replace three car parking spaces.
The plan is for the toilets to be open from 8am to 6pm daily with the kiosk likely to operate the same hours.
The toilets will be monitored by CCTV and there will also be a 20p charge for using the toilets to to fund the ongoing cleaning and maintenance.
The overall cost of the project will be in the region of £108,000. This figure will be met by a £30,000 of section 106 monies passed over by Cheshire East Council and £65,000 which has been earmarked by the Town Council from their reserves and the balance will come from their general reserves.
In providing the majority of the funding, Wilmslow Town Council will both own and maintain the facility and use the income to offset costs.
Cllr Martin Watkin, Chairman Wilmslow Town Council, said "Providing toilets at this site has been an aspiration of the Town Council for several years firstly in supporting Cheshire East Councils efforts in providing a facility and latterly when it became apparent that a direct
approach was most likely to bring about a timely conclusion."
The planning application can be viewed on the Cheshire East Council website by searching for planning reference 16/2831M. The last date for submitting comments is 6th July and a decision is expected by 4th August.
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The cost doesn't surprise me and it's going to be a source of income, albeit small.
CEC does us no favours, even to the extent of only giving WTC a small amount of the hundreds of thousands of pounds they have of our money, for this project.
Manchester Airport don't pay us any council tax, despite part of the new runway being within our parish boundary. And it should not go unnoticed that the Cleanteam of volunteers help clean our streets.
CEC won't let us paint our decrepit road signs, nor will they repair our pavements.
Amazes me how weak and feeble our CE conservative councillors are.
Fight for Wilmslow and our town council? No chance. Anything for an easy life IMHO.