Designing London’s Recovery

It's not just a case of building new toilets, they need to be staffed 24/7 to keep them clean and safe which is understandably an ongoing cost. I would be happy to pay a small charge eg 20p to use one, gates could be installed with a card reader like in some park toilets. This would help towards cost a little.
Lots of cafés have toilets but I can understand they are frustrated with people using the toilet without buying anything.

I can not think of any toilet that the public could use after midnight. Wandsworth Council advise you to use Public Libraries -open to 7pm on the days the Library is open. Also Public Houses can be used -to 11pm and some shopping centres - to 9 pm. At my age of 80 I am advised to drink more water,If I time this right I may get home before needing to urinate,so I do carry 330ml bottle just in case !

I came here from US to tour London where is my dream city. Civilized country UK few of the top list in the world. Unfortunately there are toilets issue hard to imagine how difficult to find one even it’s not free😄😄😄😄crazy I almost peeped on the street 🤭I just feel such a shame

Toilet should be clean with hand washing facilities and paper. All stations should have a toilet open as long as the station

Does anyone remember the complete nightmare of trying to find a public toilet during covid? I had to take my wife to hospital and wait around for her to finish her appointment. Wearing nappies or using a bottle seemed the only possible route....

I usually plan my route around locating public toilets
There should be a civic requirement to provide free, accessible public toilets available 24/7
Problems of 'misuse' can be dealt with by following the examples of those facilities which do work well

The best London public toilets are in in Coal Yards drop.

unless it's absolutely beyond disgusting I will always use a toilet if I need to go. The issue is availability. In victorian times there were public toilets everywhere, now these are relics or being turned into bars. Bring them back & make them accessible. They're so vital to inclusion for people with medical conditions. Security, blue lights etc. can be used to discourage drug users. (Or like maybe we could create safe alternative spaces for drug users to go? But that's another topic)

ArtG says it all (4 days ago). That is a superb summary of the situation. plus: There used to be many more public conveniences in London, but they were not abused as they are now. It's understandable that no-one wants the job of attendant either.

Also all parks should have good quality free toilets for sure. Is crystal palace park and wells park. Its good that London bridge have good toilets.

There are many business toilets such as cafe, cinema, hotels and pubs, perhaps the govt can offer some subsidy to these businesses so that they can maintain the toilets for public use. We are one society we should use what is readily available.

We need more public toilets in London.

We need single sex toilets and not unisex toilets - if unisex toilets are installed there needs to also be single sex toilets for individuals who are not comfortable or able to use a mixed/unisex toilet (for religious, sex, health or any other reason). THIS IS VITAL

Definitely a need for more public toilets. Older people complain all the time about lack of access. In Hackney it is ridiculous, busy high street areas have no public toilets! I accept in the past they attracted certain types of people that put people off from using them, but we need to rethink how we can make this work, we need staffed, clean public toilets, perhaps not hidden away so to deter people loitering and not charge to use!!