Vandals have defaced public toilets only a day after £4,500 was spent improving them.
Teenagers were found smoking and drinking in the new baby changing rooms at the loos in College Walk, Margate.
Thanet District Council said the baby-changing mat had also been loosened from its fixing and had to be repaired.
Cllr Shirley Tomlinson, the council’s cabinet member for commercial and environment, said: “It is so disheartening when something like this happens. The council is working so hard to improve the existing facilities for local people and as soon as work has been completed it’s vandalised and used for antisocial behaviour.
“Not only is that completely unacceptable, but it also costs taxpayers dearly, because we are the ones left footing the bill for repairs.”
The damage came only 24 hours after work on the public toilets had finished last Wednesday.
Cllr Tomlinson added: “If we could cut vandalism at our public toilets, we could put the money we’re currently spending on tackling that problem, into local people’s priorities.”
The council said that similar improvement costing £4,500 had been made to the toilets in East Pier Yard in Ramsgate.
POSTED: 10/12/2007 10:00:15
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