NALC and the British Toilets Association (BTA) have today (19/11/25) launched a national survey for parish and town councils to provide views and updates on public conveniences they currently manage or are likely to manage in future, to coincide with World Toilet Day 2025.

Cllr Roger Berry, director at the British Toilets Association, spoke at the 16 October 2025 NALC Policy Committee session, where he provided a helpful update on the British Toilet Association’s current work on public conveniences in the local government sector. At that session Roger also made a request for NALC/the British Toilets Association to generate a survey to gauge the current situation with parish and town councils managing public conveniences, with regards to liability transfer, limited finances transferred with the function and the general backdrop of local government re-organisation in most areas of England.  

NALC and the British Toilets Association would like to get as firm a handle as possible on general trends on public conveniences (financial/operational/asset and liability transfer) currently managed by parish and town councils, and, separately, likely to be transferred to parish and town councils as a consequence of local government re-organisation – in the context of there being no single database where this data currently resides.

Councils are asked to please complete the linked short snapshot survey on public conveniences they own or manage (one response each per council, please) by latest 23:45 on 14 January 2026 (the survey will take around 5 minutes to complete).