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EPPING: Plea for allotment toilets turned down

5:10pm Tuesday 17th June 2008

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ALLOTMENT holders will not receive the toilet facilities they have requested after Epping Town Council decided it would cost too much money.

During the last two years the allotment plots in tyhe town have increased in popularity with more young women hiring out the vegetable patches.

The council was asked to provide toilets but the allotments already create a loss of £5,000 each year for the councilm and it is estimated that providing toilets at the two allotment sites - in Lower Bury Lane and Meadow Road - would cost over £20,000.

Maintenance and cleaning would add even more to the cost.

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mdj, e10 says...
10:07pm Tue 17 Jun 08

Allotment holders are in an excellent position to solve their own sanitation problems, which can be a deterrent to plot-holders who are some distance from home: If these good people go on the Amazon Books website, they will find several excellent books, mostly American, detailing simple cheap, hygienic ways of building their own composting loos that require no mains services, and will cost much less than the sum projected. All waste will stay on site, can be recycled eventually, and set an example of solving a perennial problem in an eco=friendly way.
Best of luck!

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Steven, Epping says...
12:27pm Wed 18 Jun 08

I wouldn't be impressed at all if the council agreed to spent twenty odd thousand pound a year on one of the allotment toilets.

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