Thatcham Toilets To close? Options

[nerc]

Again West Berks off load the toilets to a town council and dont want to support the annual running costs.
I as a local Thatcham resident would more than happy to pay an extra £25.00 per year on my local council tax to ensure that the council keep the toilets open for public use.
Your thoughts and comments?

[Simon Kirby]

Again West Berks off load the toilets to a town council and dont want to support the annual running costs.
I as a local Thatcham resident would more than happy to pay an extra £25.00 per year on my local council tax to ensure that the council keep the toilets open for public use.
Your thoughts and comments?

I don't know. To make an informed opinion I'd want to know what both WBC and TTC were currently spending my tax on, and I don't know that. With WBC it's difficult because it's a big organisation that isn't particularly open with its accounts so I have only the vaguest idea of how efficient it is. With TTC it should be easier to understand how well they spend the precept, but it wouldn't be fair to assume that TTC spend it as frivolously as NTC.

I agree that in general public toilets are an essential common good which should be maintained at public expense, and if this was being proposed in Newbury I'd be making the usual arguments about the Town Council first saving the more than £250,000 annually that they squitter away on self-serving busy-work. I don't know what the situation is at TTC, but I don't like the idea of paying more tax.