Plans for £100,000 public toilets submitted

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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Public Toilets, The Carrs, Wilmslow Town Council
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Kiesha Humphreys
Thursday 16th June 2016 at 11:42 am
I sat in the WTC meeting when this was discussed all sounds very complex. Could the council not invest the money in the Parish hall to make further improvements to it including a kiosk and extension of the toilets there on the basis that they allow park goers the use of the existing toilets there? Surely then money could be spent improving the playground near the police station which would be ideal for a MUGA moving the teenagers out of the car park which has caused residents countless issues with ASB and still allowing them somewhere to play under the watchful eye of the police station! It's proximity to the petrol station also provides the teenagers somewhere to get a snack from. I think this would be a much more sensible use of the 100k and would probably attract additional sponsorship/investment if needed.
Jon Armstrong
Thursday 16th June 2016 at 1:37 pm
I believe the council don't own the parish hall - the church do.
Nick Jones
Thursday 16th June 2016 at 6:08 pm
Surely there must be a more cost effective 'green' safer option, rather than repeating errors of the past and doing 'more of the same'.. the expertise is out there .. plenty of info and solutions identified on the web..
Estelle Lewis
Thursday 16th June 2016 at 6:35 pm
There's already toilets at the Twinnies bridge entrance. They've been locked up for a few years because of 'undesirables' using them. When are these toilets going to be reopened?
Terry Roeves
Thursday 16th June 2016 at 7:22 pm
There are plenty of daft things that councils do. This is not one of them.
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.
Julie Green
Friday 17th June 2016 at 9:36 am
It's a long overdue facility for the Carrs and the many families using the playground.