Date published: 2011/05/14
The Cambridge News says:
Relocation of the Lion Yard toilets to the first floor would be likely to disadvantage the most vulnerable members of the community, according to research published last night.
An equalities impact assessment commissioned by Cambridge City Council concluded moving the loos from the Fisher Square entrance could create "real practical issues" for disabled people, pensioners, and parents with children.
Interviews and a survey responded to by 278 people found the increased length of time it would take to reach the conveniences was the key concern.
The evaluation piles pressure on the council to stop the move and Cllr Sian Reid, its leader, said she would "carefully consider the best way forward".
But the authority cannot force the hand of Aberdeen Asset Management, which runs the shopping centre, because it granted consent for the relocation in January - before any consultation was carried out.
Well, what a surprise. The city council offers one of its surveys and the group of people most affected stuff the ballot box. It is a totally meaningless result and the city (like all other forms of government) should stop this perpetual waste of money on fatuous surveys. Presumably the only point of the survey was so that the city can then plead with Aberdeen Asset Management to not go ahead with the move in the end, based on bogus statistics. (Of course it was an idiotic idea in the first place to move the toilets, but that is a completely separate issue.)
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