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THE saga surrounding the future of the public toilets in Ruswarp is driving Whitby Town Council round the u-bend.
The authority has been trying to take over the convenience for at least four years but are being chained back by a lack of response from the owners, Scarborough Borough Council (SBC).
At the end of last month the town clerk, Pam Dobson, wrote to legal chiefs at SBC saying they were still awaiting a response to a letter WTC had sent them in November.
Coun Niall Carson said: “SBC, six years ago, was closing as many public toilets around Whitby as it could. The next time they tried to close public toilets in the town we said we will adopt them and keep them open.
“That was five or six years ago, by sheer chance the first ones that came up happened to be Ruswarp. WTC said ‘Ruswarp is part of Whitby town, give them to us’. The members of the town council are still awaiting a response – that has taken four and a half years.”
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Eyeballs
Sunday, February 26, 2012 at 02:46 PMScarborough Council must be asleep if they cannot see any farther than their own ignorance. Why close public toilets, when the building can be sold for a nominal sum by requesting bids for them. They could be used as offices, hair salons, or even a public toilet. Whitby Town Council, it appears that Scarborough Council is fast asleep, so why not try that very old remedy of. “If you find a weasel asleep then urinate in its ear.”
Peter Avinou
Saturday, February 25, 2012 at 07:46 AMAh, the wonders of Political Perambulations. It's a wonder anything actually gets done at all. Perhaps the much vaunted Big Society is destined to follow the same pathetic path. Armies of people, in total confusion, endlessly pushing reams of paper around a paper trail. How long does it actually take to say DO IT? Local Authorities, Borough Councils or whatever, are truly the paragons of sloth.
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