Changing Places toilets

Overview

Kingston Council has been given a fantastic opportunity to provide three Changing Places toilets in the borough. 

Changing Places toilets are larger accessible toilets with equipment such as hoists, privacy screens, adult-sized changing benches, peninsula toilets (where there is space on both sides of the toilet) and space for carers. 

They can be used by people with profound and multiple learning disabilities or with physical disabilities who often need extra equipment and space to allow them to use public toilets safely and comfortably. Members of the community with a Radar key will be able to use them. 

We have secured £120,000 funding from the Government to provide three registered Changing Places toilets. The council will provide additional funding if needed and support the cleaning and maintenance of the new toilets. 

The application for funding was based on feedback we received from a survey we carried out in 2021 about public toilets in the borough. The survey highlighted the need for this type of toilet. The new toilets will contribute to ensuring Kingston is a fairer borough, for everyone.

Three sites have been carefully chosen where they will benefit people, there is space for them and they can be connected to water and power. The locations also meet Government guidance and advice from Muscular Dystrophy UK. They will be registered and in use by the end of June 2024. 

The locations are: 

• Latchmere Recreation Ground 
• Canbury Gardens 
• Hook Centre, Hook Parade 

More detail can be found by scrolling through the document inserted below. It is also available to download from the Related documents section at the bottom of the page.

We are continuing to look at wider public toilet provision in the borough and other locations for Changing Places Toilets which we could bid for funding for in the future.  

Share your views

Please let us know if there is anything we should think about when installing the toilets in these locations. We want to make these locations as helpful as possible. 

How to get in touch with us

If you have any questions, or need any of the information in a different format, please get in touch with us by emailing capitalprojectsteam@kingston.gov.uk or calling the council’s customer contact centre on 020 8547 5000 and asking for a member of the Capital Projects team to call you back.

Why your views matter

We want to hear your views as we continue to prepare a planning application which will be submitted to the council.

What happens next

Thank you to everyone who gave us their feedback. 

We are now considering the information you have given us as we continue to work with the contractor about where they are going and submit a planning application.