Council looking to increase toilet provision on Tooting Common

The council has told Nub News they are 'assessing ways' they can 'increase provision on the common' after issues of human excrement have been raised.

Local residents have called for temporary portaloos to be installed on the common to deal with heavy footfall throughout summer.

FOTC (Friends Of Tooting Common), a collection of local residents who are passionate about Tooting Common, wrote to the Council and Enable Parks to address the current state of the greenspace.

The letter covered issues from litter, poor grassland, waterlogging, to the 'serious problem of human excrement'.

A spokesperson for the Council told Nub News: "There are toilets at the café and we are assessing ways in which we can increase provision on the common including the use of temporary portaloos.

"There is no excuse whatsoever for people to treat the common in this way."

Residents believe a larger provision of toilets needs to be installed to cover the heavy use of the common throughout the summer.

Part of the letter sent by FOTC reads: "We are not at all clear why portaloos are not being provided, since they are being provided on Wandsworth Common and Battersea Park while toilets are out of action there.

"We do therefore ask for temporary provision of portaloos on Tooting Common, to avoid unsanitary and inappropriate use of bushes and wooded areas, and so that the Common is of course treated on the same basis as the other large greenspaces in the borough."

Tooting Nub News is waiting for a response from Enable Parks.

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