00:00 When you're out and about in the city centre, where do you go to relieve
00:04 yourself? If you need to go and spend a penny, then you'd be hard-pressed to find
00:12 somewhere readily available. Sometimes this issue can be exacerbated with age
00:17 or certain medical conditions. We've been on the streets of Liverpool to ask you.
00:22 Do you think there are enough public toilets in Liverpool?
00:26 No, I think it's a disgrace. I think it's an absolute disgrace. When you go in shops,
00:32 I went to Mark's the other day and he ended up saying to me, "There's no toilets in here."
00:36 He said, "If you want to use toilets, the nearest one to the nearest downstairs,
00:40 go to one in Liverpool."
00:42 You've got to go into a betting shop or a pub or whatever. In some places now,
00:47 we'll say customers only. So there's only the market, really, that I know of.
00:54 There used to be them in Marks and Spencers, but they've gone. So anybody with
00:58 bladder conditions or health conditions, it's not good.
01:02 There are no enough public toilets around. Like yesterday, I was travelling to London
01:07 at the bus stop by the National Express. I wanted to go to the toilets. I couldn't
01:15 ease myself. I was told to go to Lewis. Is it Lewis? John Lewis. Sorry.
01:24 So because there were no toilets, I mean, I was so pressed. I couldn't help myself.
01:29 But there is not enough. This is just a case study. This just happened less than 24 hours.
01:34 People wrecked them years ago, didn't they? They had to stop them. They pushed with a bag.
01:41 Who's going to pay for the maintenance? Council taxes again, then?
01:45 So, and anyway, you know, you can always jump into a pub or a betting shop,
01:51 you know what I mean? So there's not so much trouble with that, really.
01:56 There's no way you can go to it. It's just a fine, stupid life.
02:00 You know, years ago, going back, when I was younger, there used to be public toilets,
02:04 and there was nothing sensible, see? Well, I think it's just a way of getting money
02:08 out to people. People get charged. It's only 30p, but they get charged to go to toilets now.
02:15 Whereas there are public things that are being used. That's what the public,
02:19 you should look after the public. No, I think there should be more,
02:23 but then you've got to police them. It's been bemoaned by many that the
02:28 recently opened M&S in Liverpool 1 now only features one loo. Of course, it isn't on
02:35 retailers to be providing facilities, but it has got people talking. Now, the call for more public
02:40 toilets is not a recent phenomenon, with TripAdvisor reviews going back years discussing
02:46 the lack of loos in Liverpool. And the issue isn't just exclusive to the city. A 2019 report
02:53 titled 'The Decline of the Great British Toilet' noted that three in four people in the UK
02:58 think there are not enough public loos in their area.
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