COUNCIL bosses will pull the chain ten public loos across Tendring in a bid to save £60,000 a year.

Tendring Council’s cabinet decided to close the blocks following a review of toilets across the district.

The lost loos are in Ipswich Road, Holland on Sea, the Westcliff gents, High Street car park and Magdalen Green toilets, in Clacton, as well as the Garden Road block in Jaywick.

The Old Way toilets, in Frinton, Mill Lane and the Naze, in Walton, and the Cemetery and the Cliff toilets, in Dovercourt, will also be axed.

Former Jaywick councillor Dan Casey has called on Tendring Council to overturn its decision to shut the public loos in Garden Road after collecting a 1,000-name petition, which was presented to the council’s cabinet on Friday.

Labour group leader Ivan Henderson called on the council to reconsider its plans.

Mr Henderson said: “Residents, businesses and visitors were promised over ten years ao that there would be new toilet block to replace those in Garden Road- and this decision now fails those people.

“Having waited ten years with their fingers crossed - now they will now have to keep their legs crossed as they’ll be no toilets there.

“There should be a rethink on the Garden Road toilets as it send the wrong message out to Jaywick when we are trying to regenerate the area.

“We should not be taking them away before new ones are in place.”

Nick Turner, cabinet member responsible for toilets, previously said the council is set to axe 25 percent of its 40 public loos.

He added: “No councillor ever likes to lose a facility in their ward, no matter how poor that facility is or how much it is abused.

“It is not just the closing of a public conveniences that provides the saving it is the complete removal of the facility either by selling or demolishing that provides the reduction in cost, “By bringing the cleaning contract in house, we have improved our quality and made further savings upwards of £20,000 a year.”

Mr Turner added that he understood concerns over the closure of the Garden Road toilets, but said the block has been left in a “disgusting” state on numerous occasions.

“There have been substances there and antisocial behaviour round this site.

“It is appalling and no one in Garden Road wants them kept there - they have to go.

“Having said that we do need a facility along there and that is something this cabinet will be looking at.”

Cabinet member Paul Honeywood said it could be an option for Jaywick Forum or another community group to take on the ownership and running of the toilets for a nominal sum.