inputs to copp public toilet plan 2023-2033. have your say ends 12 july 2023.
[posted 1 july 2023]
the city of port phillip is:
– building two new accessible public toilets at Fitzroy Street, St Kilda, and Waterfront Place, Port Melbourne, and
– replacing the existing Exeloo at Shakespeare Grove, St Kilda, and the fire damaged facilities at Alma Park with new sustainable toilets.
read copp updates on public toilets here
Residents have raised concerns about toilets in the Fitzroy St / West St Kilda area: the location of the proposed new toilets in Fitzroy Street, the condition of the toilet block at Cummings Reserve, and the ‘public toilet’ which was part of the Metropol Development.
PROPOSED NEW TOILET IN FITZROY STREET
We learned from a recent post on This Week In St Kilda [TWISK] that if “proposed budget cuts go ahead, the long-promised public toilet in Fitzroy Street will be shelved until 22/23 at the earliest. The $240K previously set aside for the ‘portable/temporary amenity’ on Fitzroy Street is to be ditched as part of a $16M COVID-19 budget saving plan.”
There is already a lack of public toilet facilities in Fitzroy Street — a further delay will aggravate the problem.
CUMMINGS RESERVE TOILET BLOCK
The toilets are an ugly blight on the landscape for users at the West Beach end of the waterfront as well as the thousands of passersby who travel along Beaconsfield Parade each day. The toilets are also poorly lit at night. As can be seen from the photos, the internal facilities are functional but quite run down. Most people say they are not game to use these toilets.
PUBLIC TOILET AT THE METROPOL
The public toilets at the Metropol development were closed to the public in mid-2016 due to ‘safety issues’, yet access remained for bar operators and staff who held keys. The following year the toilets were made accessible to bar patrons, but remained, and to this date remain closed to the public in clear breach of the initial planning permit.
