Public Toilet Review
Client: Greater Shepparton City Council
Status: Completed 2013
Status: Completed 2013
Promoting dignity with welcoming places for people
Good public toilets not only make good economic sense, they are also an essential element of human dignity and compassion. They are expensive components of Council infrastructure with both high capital cost and significant maintenance requirements. This project shifted GSCC from a reactive approach to a strategic and proactive one.
This project provided a strategic overview of public toilet facilities in the Shepparton region. It was developed to guide the provision of accessible public toilet facilities and associated infrastructure for the next ten years.
We assessed all of the existing 29 public toilets within the GSCC area. This included preliminary structural and DDA assessments which formed the basis of the report recommendations. The project consultation included GSCC maintenance team members. It also included DAC (Disability Advisory Committee), PAAC (Positive Ageing Advisory Committee), Shepparton Access, Safe Community Advisory Committee, Victoria Police, Vision Australia as well as local residents and retailers.
Their feedback identified the need for breast feeding spaces which are culturally sensitive and adult change facilities for disabled users. We developed a concept plan for an integrated facility which will be included in the next stage of the Vaughan Street/Maude Street precinct to address both of these needs.
Strategic guidelines integrated safety, accessibility, and environmentally sustainable design. Recommendations included opportunities to refurbish, replace or remove existing public toilets, as well as outlining opportunities for new public toilet infrastructure. A proposed 10-year capital works plan was developed to support GSCC in the delivery of the project recommendations.
This project was completed by LMLA prior to merger with Thomson Hay Landscape Architects
Good public toilets not only make good economic sense, they are also an essential element of human dignity and compassion. They are expensive components of Council infrastructure with both high capital cost and significant maintenance requirements. This project shifted GSCC from a reactive approach to a strategic and proactive one.
This project provided a strategic overview of public toilet facilities in the Shepparton region. It was developed to guide the provision of accessible public toilet facilities and associated infrastructure for the next ten years.
We assessed all of the existing 29 public toilets within the GSCC area. This included preliminary structural and DDA assessments which formed the basis of the report recommendations. The project consultation included GSCC maintenance team members. It also included DAC (Disability Advisory Committee), PAAC (Positive Ageing Advisory Committee), Shepparton Access, Safe Community Advisory Committee, Victoria Police, Vision Australia as well as local residents and retailers.
Their feedback identified the need for breast feeding spaces which are culturally sensitive and adult change facilities for disabled users. We developed a concept plan for an integrated facility which will be included in the next stage of the Vaughan Street/Maude Street precinct to address both of these needs.
Strategic guidelines integrated safety, accessibility, and environmentally sustainable design. Recommendations included opportunities to refurbish, replace or remove existing public toilets, as well as outlining opportunities for new public toilet infrastructure. A proposed 10-year capital works plan was developed to support GSCC in the delivery of the project recommendations.
This project was completed by LMLA prior to merger with Thomson Hay Landscape Architects