Public Toilets: Resources

Presentations and Materials from London Councils Event 18th April 2023

Cardiff Council Presentation (ppt)

Cardiff Council Toilet Guide (pdf)

Cardiff Council Community Toilet Scheme Leaflet (pdf)

Cardiff Council Community Toilet Scheme Sticker (png)

Tower Hamlets - Community Toilet Scheme Presentation (ppt)

Tower Hamlets Community Toilet Scheme Leaflet A5 (pdf)

Tower Hamlets Community Toilet Scheme Sticker (pdf)

Tower Hamlets Toilet Poster (pdf)

Tower Hamlets Community Toilet Scheme Welcome Leaflet A5 (pdf)

Lewisham Community Toilets Map (pdf)

Gail Ramster Royal College of Art/Helen Hamlyn School of Design Presentation (pdf)

Age UK Blog 

- London Councils Event  by Dom Taylor

Public toilets: Reports, guides and other information

• TINKLE (Toilets Innovation and New Knowledge Exchange) – resource library  

Overview 

• Local authorities. Planning, development and public information – briefing paper – Age UK London (2022) 
• Improving Public Access to Better Quality Toilets A Strategic Guide – Communities and Local Government (2008)  
• The Toilet Paper – London Assembly Health Committee (2021)  
• Royal Society for Public Health – Taking the Piss – The decline of the great British public toilet (2019) 
• Toilet Manifesto for London – KOVE and Positive Ageing in London (2020) 

 The Views of Londoners 

• London Loos report – Age UK London (2022) 

Toilet strategies 

• Local authorities and toilet strategies – briefing paper – Age UK London (2022) 
• Local toilet strategy – Cardiff Council (2022) 

Inclusive design 

• Publicly Accessible Toilets after COVID-19: a 2021 update to inclusive design guidance – Royal College of Art (2021)  
• Publicly Accessible Toilets: An Inclusive Design Guide – Jo-Anne Bichard & Gail Ramster (2011) 
• What a great public toilet looks like by Dr John Miles of KOVE

Engaged project (reusing empty premises for public toilets) 

• Regeneration Workshop report – Public Toilets Research Unit (2022) 
• On-the-Ground: DLR report – Public Toilets Research Unit & PiM (2022)  
• Pre-feasibility Study – Public Toilets Research Unit & PiM (2022) 

Community Toilet Schemes 

• Community Toilet Schemes Briefing Paper – Age UK London (2022) 
• Report by Margit Physant MSc – Age UK London (2022)  

Presentation, Local campaigning (London Loos), Age UK London, May 2023

• Presentation, Local campaigning (London Loos), Age UK London, May 2023

Loos for Haringey campaign group

Purpose statement

Additional resources 

• Great British Public Toilet map 
• Toilet Design toolkit  
• Toilets 4 London
• Report, Dying to Spend a penny, A survey of public conveniences within the Royal Borough of Greenwich Jane Hopkins, 2022’.
• Presentation: Loos for Islington Group, May 2023