Mounting Cost of Not Spending a Penny in Broughty Ferry

Automated public convenience still not working 1st November 

In March when our award winning staffed public toilets in the Queen Street Car park were closed as part of the cuts, we were promised that there would be a replacement Automated Public Convenience (APC) in place for summer visitors.


Work to install the automated public convenience did not however begin until the end of August. On Tuesday, more than two months later, a trench is finally being dug in the car park for the water and drainage connection to the automated public convenience. But as the APC has been on site and partially installed since the end of August, I presume our public money has been wasted paying the leasing charges while it can't be used. 

I have written to David Dorward, the Council's Chief Executive, to clarify the responsibility for the lengthening delay to 'spend a penny'  and the mounting cost to council tax of paying for a facility that has not yet been fully installed. 

Ken Guild, Leader of the Council and also a Broughty Ferry Councillor, can hardly feel flushed with success from this initiative.