Public toilets on Bedford Street
Dear Stroud District Council,
I'd like to make the following Freedom of Information request:
1) How much was spent by SDC on maintenance of the public toilets on Bedford Street toilets in the 5 years leading up to their recent closure?
2) How much was spent on maintenance of the public toilets on Bedford Street toilets while they were all closed?
3) How much is being spent on maintenance of the public toilets on Bedford Street now that two of the cubicles are back open?
4) How much is expected to be spent going forward on maintenance of the public toilets on Bedford Street when all cubicles are back open?
Yours faithfully,
Alex Clark
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Dear Alex
Ref No: 4825
Thank you for your email of 3^rd September 2018 requesting information
about Public toilets on Bedford Street.
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Yours sincerely
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Lauren Holbrow
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Community Services
Stroud District Council
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Stroud
Glos
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Dear Alex
Ref No: 4825
Thank you for your email of 3^rd September 2018 where you requested
information about Public toilets on Bedford Street.
From our preliminary assessment, it is clear that we will not be able to
answer your request without further clarification.
We require further information in order to identify and locate the
information you have asked for. In particular, it would be useful to know
what information you require within the term ‘maintenance’.
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Yours sincerely
Lauren
Lauren Holbrow
Business Support Officer
Community Services
Stroud District Council
Ebley Mill, Ebley Wharf
Stroud
Glos
GL5 4UB
Tel: 01453 754 276
Email: [email address]
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Dear Stroud District Council,
By 'maintenance', I mean the amount spent by SDC cleaning and repairing etc the toilets.
Please could you also detail how many cleaners were assigned to the toilets in each year and how often they would check and clean the toilets.
Yours faithfully,
Alex Clark
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Dear Alex
Ref No: 4825
Subject: Letter providing all the information requested
Further to my email where you requested information about Public Toilets
on Bedford Street.
The information you requested is below:
1) There is also no breakdown per toilet block, please find total budget
allocated to all public conveniences for each year
2013-2014 = £388,900
2014-2015 = £317,807
2015-2016 = £322,900
2016-2017 = £329,200
2017 – 2018 = £336,200
Repairs information can be broken down by block. Please see repairs/
maintenance costs for Bedford Street over the last 5 years
2013-2014 = £13,104
2014-2015 = £1,966
2015-2016 = £3,682
2016-2017 = £517
2017 – 2018 = £3,096
2) Bedford Street toilets are cleaned as part of the Building Cleaning
element within the multi-Service Contract with UBICO. As the closure was
only temporary, no contract variation was needed. Therefore there was no
variance in the cost of cleaning the toilets during the closure or whilst
2 cubicles were open.
3) As above
4) See above
5)
2013- 2014 – 2 cleaners 4x daily
2014-2015 – 2 cleaners 4x daily
2015-2016 - 2 cleaners 4x daily
2016- 2017 - 2 cleaners 4x daily
2017 – 2018 – 2 cleaners 2x daily
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Yours sincerely,
Lauren
Lauren Holbrow
Business Support Officer
Community Services
Stroud District Council
Ebley Mill, Ebley Wharf
Stroud
Glos
GL5 4UB
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