Campaigners were refused access to loos in cafes and shops across Bristol, highlighting a faltering council-run scheme to replace 18 recently closed public toilets.
After Bristol City Council controversially shut 18 public toilets in 2018, a new scheme was set up to replace the lost loos. The council’s Community Toilet Scheme sees shops, cafes, pubs and other venues offer their toilets to the public, free to use, without ordering anything.
But research conducted by the community union Acorn has shown that most of the 126 toilets do not have a poster up clearly advertising the scheme — which the council say they must — and many staff appear to be unaware they are involved in the scheme.
