It’s been reported that the closure of public toilets in a popular beauty spot Rogie Falls, just outside Contin in Ross-shire, which attracts thousands of tourists and local dog-walkers every year, is now suffering from people using the area outside as a public toilet instead.
Human waste has been seen directly outside the toilets which is now going to cost the council a lot of money to clean up. Not only is the mess unsightly, smelly and unsanitary but it beggars belief that the excuse for closing them is put down (as usual) to the running costs. How much will the clean up cost? How much will the local tourist industry be hit when people come once, but don’t return because of the bad impression given by open air toilets? Could these not be weighed against the cost of keeping them open all year?
When will councils realise that we all have to go sometime and it’s their duty to provide facilities for us?