Issue - meetings

As detailed in the recommendation.

Councillor Banks introduced the report and explained that the Public Health (Wales) Act 2017 provided specific timescales that must be followed in relation to the preparation and review of local toilets strategies.  The statutory timetable must be followed, even if a local authority decided, for operational reasons, to voluntarily publish a review or update the strategy document between key reporting points in the statutory timetable.

            Flintshire’s local toilet strategy was approved and published in May 2019.  Ntional guidelines state that the policy should be reviewed every two years from when the local authority last published or last reviewed its strategy, and within one year of every ordinary local government election.

            The report provided and update on progress against the local toilets strategy action plan in line with the statutory requirements, and to set out the approach for further review in 2022/2023.

            The Highways Strategy Manager explained that participating locations, detailed in the appendix to the report, would display a toilet logo sticker at entrances to identify toilets were available at that location for use by the public. 

RESOLVED:

That the review be supported and progress to date against the local toilets strategy action plan be noted.