My book is published today 📚. It’s called Designing Inclusive Public Toilets: Wee the People, written with @jo-anneb.bsky.social. It’s part inclusive design guide, part manifesto for better public toilets 🚽. Buy copies for all your friends! 🎁. Here’s what you’ll find inside 🧵

For five years, we’ve mapped gender neutral toilets. But for 4 in 5 public toilets, we just don’t know what loos exist. Can you help find more?

Toilet provision is critical for many Londoners and visitors—it can even determine whether somebody travels on public transport at all.

Great news that a new accessible toilet at White Hart Lane is now open, with Seven Sisters and more to follow.

Fascinating new report from AgeUK London, 'Lifting the Lid', about #publictoilets and #localgov in the capital. Full of great data, such as:
- 97 toilets closed in ten years.
- but 32 opened (I know that sounds bad, but I'm pleased it's any).
www.ageuk.org.uk/london/publi...

It’s a relief that in fact the @toiletmap.bsky.social isn’t such a secret: secretldn.com/public-toile...

Happy to have contributed to a more readable base layer — further contributions welcome!

From a community toilet in Friockheim, Scotland, to London loos in Tower Hamlets and Trafalgar Square, check out our 🚽 stars of 2024!🌟

We’re proud to be a member of the London Loo Alliance. We want to hear form Londoners about their experiences of finding a public toilet when they are out and about this festive season. Please help us by completing this short survey bit.ly/LondonLooAll... #LondonLooSurvey

Great question from a visitor - 'I'll be in London for Christmas Day and I would like to know which toilets are open around Buckingham Palace, Westminster and Oxford Street?'
#London, what've we got?

Euston, we have a problem.

Access to public toilets/bathrooms is a means of control. In the late Victorian period, public urinals for men started appearing but nothing for women. This has a name - the urinary leash. It restricted how far women could travel, preventing them from doing many things that men could easily do.

It's two years since I've written a blog post, but inspired by some of the recent goings on in Westminster here are a few thoughts: doingyourbusiness.blogspot.com/2024/11/what...

Huge contribution this week from a member of the public - nearly 100 toilets updated for Richmond-upon-Thames long-running Community Toilet Scheme. Thank you!

Check out Toilet Map @toiletmap.bsky.social which uses the @protomaps.com OSM basemap with Leaflet!

www.toiletmap.org.uk

More people have a mobile phone than have access to a toilet...

Sanitation is a human right. It protects everyone’s dignity, and especially transforms the lives of women and girls. More investment and better governance of sanitation are critical for a fairer, more peaceful world. #WorldToiletDay

Toilet dignity is a serious issue for many transport workers.
For example, many bus services operate along routes where drivers don't have guaranteed access to a suitable toilet.
This #WorldToiletDay we're calling for guaranteed toilet dignity for all workers 🧻

On this #WorldToiletDay 🚽 we celebrate our tenth birthday of The Toilet Map!

Launched on 19-Nov 2014 with 9000 loos, The Great British Public Toilet Map has grown to 15000 publicly accessible toilets - any the public can use that aren’t ‘customer-only’.

But how do we keep finding loos? 🧵(1/7)

Happy World Toilet Day! 🧻️ 🚽

Still plenty of work to do, but I’m so pleased with how much we’ve accomplished in the quest for more public toilets over the last year.

This is down to so many campaigners making the urgent case for public toilets to be included in an accessible transport network.

*refills the soap*
*replaces the flowers*
*folds the toilet paper into a little triangle*

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