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Published:
July 8. 2008
Angry Burnham councillors threaten protest over closure of public
toilets
 Angry
Burnham-On-Sea town councillors this week threatened to withdraw
£35,000 of funding for the district council in protest at
the authority's decision to shut down and sell the town's seafront
toilets.
At
a meeting on Monday evening (July 7th), several councillors proposed
the controversial move in a bid to "force Sedgemoor District
Council to sit up and take notice" of the council's disapproval
of last
month's decision to close the public loos in Seaview Road.
Cllr
John Morgan told the meeting: "Sedgemoor sold off the Manor
House and other assets in Burnham and now they've sold off these
toilets too. There's been no guarantee that the money raised will
be spent here in Burnham."
"I
propose we stop being friendly to Sedgemoor - they have no goodwill
towards Burnham - so let's suspend the £35,000 of funding
we'd allocated to their regeneration plans."
Cllr
Neville Jones said that while he too was "very disappointed"
at the sale of the Seaview Road toilets, he had been assured that
the money raised from the sale of the facilities would be "ring-fenced
for Burnham."
The
proposal to withdraw the £35,000 of regeneration funding
was proposed by Cllr John Morgan and seconded by Cllr Chris Williams,
but failed to gain further support.
The
town council decided instead send a "sternly worded"
letter to the district council, registering its feelings about
the sell-off.
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