We, the undersigned, are calling for permanent accessible toilets, with baby changing facilities, on Tooting Common.

Enable Leisure and Culture have placed temporary toilets on the Common. These are nowhere near the playground and tennis courts. They are not accessible or child-friendly. The Café toilet is not always available and the café closes early every day, whilst there are still many service users on the Common.

Children have to go to the toilet in the bushes, babies' nappies are being changed in the bushes or parents using the playground often have to leave early when they or their children need the loo. That is not how it should be. Parents need to have safe and secure changing facilities. There also needs to be a place where nappies can be disposed of without attracting foxes or rats.

Disabled users of the Common, some in wheelchairs, cannot use the current toilet facilities. Everyone should be treated equally. A changing places toilet would mean all types of disabilities would be catered for in terms of facilities.

Older people also need to be sure there are toilet facilities at convenient places on the Common.

The aim is change and nothing changes if nothing changes.

Tooting Common will remain as it is unless we share a clear message: We need permanent toilets and we need them now. A permanent structure would be beneficial to service users for generations. 

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