PE1955: Make the provision of public toilets a statutory duty
Petition Summary
Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to ensure local authorities provide good quality, clean and accessible public toilets by:
- placing a statutory duty on local authorities to provide adequate public toilets; and
ensuring sufficient funding is available to local authorities to meet this requirement.
Petitioner: John Wood
Status: Closed
Date published: 03 August 2022
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Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee Consideration
Committee Meetings
23 November 2022: The Committee agreed to write to the Scottish Government and to the Highland, South Ayrshire and Aberdeenshire councils.
Official Report of Meeting 23 November 2022
6 September 2023: The Committee agreed to close the petition under Rule 15.7 of Standing Orders and to write to Scottish Government.
Official Report of Meeting 06 September 2023
Written Submissions
PE1955/A: Scottish Government submission of 7 September 2022 (55.9KB, pdf) (56KB, pdf) posted 23 September 2022
PE1955/B: Petitioner submission of 23 September 2022 (48.3KB, pdf) (48KB, pdf) posted 05 October 2022
PE1955/C: Highland Council submission of 23 December 2022 (61.4KB, pdf) (61KB, pdf) posted 11 January 2023
PE1955/D: Aberdeenshire Council submission of 6 January 2023 (128.6KB, pdf) (129KB, pdf) posted 11 January 2023
PE1955/E: Scottish Government submission of 16 February 2023 (11KB, pdf) posted 31 August 2023
PE1955/F: Petitioner submission of 22 March 2023 (129KB, pdf) posted 30 March 2023