A town council is Essex spends £20,000 a year on the contract for one public toilet, a Freedom of Information request has revealed. 

Billericay Essex report:

Billericay Town Council is flushing more than £19,000 of taxpayers’ money down the pan each year by paying for a “Dr Who” public toilet used just nine times a day on average.

That is the view of Billericay resident and former town councillor Terence Gandy, who this week called on the authority to dispense with the revolving door public toilet in the car park behind Iceland off the High Street.

Mr Gandy, of Norsey View Drive, wants the council to terminate its contract with Healthmatic, the firm which provides the futuristic water closet.

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Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.