“Whenever I've passed these grotty, outdated loos, I've sub-consciously held my breath, why?
When in town BHS, M&S have super clean toilets, that are checked regularly for cleanliness, no problems for either sex.”

“what cottage toilets shut ....disgusting dark weird smelly place had some laughs in there”

“I agree with others that the men's toilets at High Bridge, St Peter at Arches and the Bus Stationn are very old, grotty and not nice for anyone to use the facilities and I think they are not very hygienic any way.The highe bridge and St Peter at Arches only have old little grotty blocks of soap, the floor is always wet and slippery and do they actually have warm water to wash your hands ? Plus I find them very nerving to visit and people that suffer with nerves the old and disable people theses toilets are very unsuitable for them. It's about time they were closed and replaced with betther facilities. Also while I am on the toilet subject why is it that many people that visit the toilet still do not wash their hands. I have noticed that it is mainly the older generation that walk straight out not washing their hands first. This distgusts me surely they should know better and the germs they spread is disgusting. It really gets me that the older generation call and criticize the younger generation when they are just as bad if not worse.”

“maybe the boiler tooke a leak ;)”

“I would agree with both of you except for I thing. Toilets are down to the cash strapped city council and both of the things you mention are down to the county council”

“Perhaps they could also abandon the child seat for taxis idea, another in the list of 'we've got nothing better to spend money on' ideas. It's about time the providers of the money that Councils use had a bigger say in what it is spent on.”

“spoon, and yet the council can find £750k just like that to buy a house just so they can cut a few trees down. after they sell so-called house they could refurbish them toilets and still have money to spare”

“I don't think you would get an argument from anyone in Lincoln including the council that the public toilets need attention. I guess the question is what services would WE the public be happy to cut to fund a 500k refit coz I bet that¿s what it would cost. The other option of course would be to put up council tax to fund it. 1% increase in council tax raises about 50k a year so a 10% increase should just about cover it. The last option would be to charge for the new improved facilities. Can you imagine what people would say to any of these if the council went ahead. "you can't cut that" or "Why should we pay more" or "I'm not paying for a pee it's my right as a tax payer". So what should they do in these tight economic times. Mend the boiler and make do would be my advice. Oh!! that¿s what they are doing. Good on you council. I would point out that had our toilets been invested in over the last couple of decades by Labour then they wouldn't have got in this state in the first place. It's quite like the country as a whole really. Labour spend in the wrong places and leave the Conservatives to make the hard decisions to sort things out.”

“Why close it entirely just for a faulty boiler? Just stick up a sign saying "Sorry - no hot water" and let people decide for themselves if they want to use it.

People aren't morons (mostly) - they can decide for themselves if they mind having cold handies!”

“maybe the council should consider gutting them and refurbishing it to be more modern, it hasnt changed in there for over 20 yrs. as for the boiler if the parts are that hard to get why not just install a new boiler (or that option to simple)”