A new campaign has been launched to bring back public toilets across Newcastle.
Like many authorities across the country, Newcastle City Council shut down its public conveniences as a cost-cutting measure – with the last closing in 2012. After the demise of the city’s WCs, some have been given a new lease of life – with the underground Victorian toilets in the Bigg Market and the ladies’ loos on High Bridge now both turned into trendy bars.
But tenants’ union ACORN is now calling on city officials to think again about the provision of public toilets on Tyneside and spend a few civic centre pennies to make new ones available in busy areas like the Quayside and Shields Road in Byker. The council confirmed that it has secured funding to open two new accessible toilets, to be located at the civic centre itself and at Northern Stage, and said it would “always look to open new toilets when maintenance costs are affordable”.
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