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Washroom Hygiene
Beside the seaside
Excellent savings on urinals
Brent council has signed a deal
This summer Southend Borough refurbishments across 22 other with Excel Hygiene to reduce
Council welcomed its annual priority locations including water consumption and
influx of holidaymakers and Southend Seafront. Toilets have maintenance costs of urinals
weekend visitors travelling to its been upgraded with energy across the borough. To date,
historic seaside location. saving devices such as light the new Excel Urinal system
With visitors in mind, the sensors and water saving hand- has been installed in Brent
council called on the expertise washing units. Town Hall and is due to be
of B-Environmental Swisher to To compliment the existing installed in the following
carry out a deep clean service of cleansing regime provided by buildings in the coming
its public toilets. CEMS Services, B-Environmental months: Chesterfield House,
A recent renovation Swisher was brought in to Mahatma Ghandi House, Brent
programme for the public toilets provide a deep clean service and House and Brent Park.
in the borough was completed sanitise all surfaces. “Brent Council are very
in partnership with Danfo UK, “Providing clean and usable happy with the installation by
Allied Construction, Cory toilets is important to meet the Excel Hygiene systems to the saving on water costs. The new
Environmental Municipal Service demands of our residents and urinals throughout the Brent system is environmentally
(CEMS) visitors,” says Cllr. Ian Robertson, Town Hall,” states Peter friendly using bio enzymes,
and executive portfolio holder for Balham, senior project which are not harmful to the
Swisher public protection. manager in property and asset environment or marine life.
Hygiene. Mike Hine’s Swisher Southend management divisions.“We are The system also provides an
The team using a range of B- now planning along with Excel odour lock system which
project Environmental cleaning Hygiene to extend the releases a pleasant fragrance
delivered products and power cleaning installations across the creating a much improved
a new machines provided the deep council’s property portfolio.” washroom experience.
toilet clean service. Contact the The Excel Urinal System Excel Hygiene was launched
facility in company for details. claims to use 97% less water at the beginning of 2009.
Eastwood
42544 or cleaning-matters.co.uk/enquiry
than the current urinal system,
42546 or cleaning-matters.co.uk/enquiry
Park and
Tel: 0500 500 165
providing more than 50%
Tel: 07950 284483
Taking a trip around your area can be a toiletless nightmare
Peter Carrol, media liaison officer and librarian at the British Cleaning Council,
reports on a personal experience of the decline of public toilets within the UK
arlier in the summer Tim public health.“For decades the breeding ground for infections Contrastingly, other London
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Farron, Democrat MP for provision of good municipal and potentially fatal illnesses. boroughs demonstrate the
Westmorland and facilities was a matter of Finally I came across the advantages of maintaining
Lonsdale, tabled a motion considerable civic pride,” states public toilet building in Bethnal public facilities. Westminster
requesting for government aid Steve Wright, chairman of the Green's Museum Gardens. Its Council’s 40-plus public toilet
to maintain lavatories in public BCC.“Now we need to reverse appearance suggested it had facilities serve more than 10
places.“The decline in the this decline.” been closed for decades, million visitors annually. Night-
number of public toilets in I decided to investigate the becoming a derelict eyesore – a time pop-up urinals prevent
rural areas is the result of the deterioration of the service in magnet for antisocial behaviour, street urination, reducing
government passing the my local area, London’s Tower alcoholics and gangs. maintenance and repair costs.
buck,” argued Farron,“groups Hamlets. My first call was a I asked passersby if they ‘SatLav’ (text-messaged
such as the elderly, those with stroll through Victoria Park. The could recommend anywhere directions to the nearest toilet
young children and people public toilet facilities were in that I could relieve myself; in Westminster), has also
with disabilities are particularly bad shape, their doors locked suggestions were either received encouraging visitor
badly hit. The government with an ominous-looking sign McDonalds or the pub. Not a numbers.
needs to act to address this.” notifying me that they were single person was aware of any The alleviation of ‘bladder
The decline in public ‘closed due to maintenance’. municipal facilities. leash’ – the constraint on the
conveniences has continued at I then took a walk down A Tower Hamlets distances and duration people
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an alarming rate, decreasing towards the shopping spokesperson later told me can travel because of the lack
from a 15,000 high to 5,500 in promenade, where I found one that it closed its two staffed of toilets – is undoubtedly
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recent estimates. Numbers of the modern automated conveniences in 2007,“due to reflected in borough visitor
peaked during the 19th pods – open for use – but high running costs and their numbers.
century, when toilets were absolutely filthy. Such attraction for anti-social
42547 or cleaning-matters.co.uk/enquiry
seen as a key component of unhygienic toilets are a behaviour.”
Tel: 020 7920 9640
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