Campaign to keep public toilets open
It has been in an ongoing campaign to stop 11 facilities being closed by Worthing Borough Council. They cost the council more than 312,000 a year and it wants to close them to make savings of at least 35,000.
Chairman of the environment committee, George Stephens agreed with ten out of 11 officers' recommendations to close facilities at a meeting on Monday.
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Hide AdOther changes include restricting opening times and asking cafes and leisure facilities to take responsibility for other sites.
But councillors agreed that a final decision would not be made until residents' associations had been consulted.
While the association welcomed moves to keep Broadwater open, it did not agree that facilities on the pier should close. The council wants to redirect users to sites at the lido and dome.
Full story in West Sussex Gazette, September 22