Rejected petition Re-open all commercial toilets for public access

Accessing the toilet should not be a luxury, it should be a public right. We urge the government to introduce legislation requiring all commercial businesses to re-open their closed public toilets - allowing people the invaluable right to public access, particularly for those suffering incontinence

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Whether buying tea in a cafe or clothes in a shop, everyone needs the toilet at inconvenient times and access to facilities should be simple and easy. However, wide-scale public toilet closure by commercial businesses has caused inadequate provision with COVID-19. This public health issue concerns and affects everyone as we all use toilets. However, it causes greater distress, discomfort and humiliation to those suffering incontinence like children, pregnant women, the elderly, and the disabled.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

Decisions about access to privately maintained toilets is a matter for individual businesses, not the Government or House of Commons.

We have published the following petition, which you might like to sign:

Require local authorities to provide free 24-hour accessible public toilets: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/555114

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 14 December 2020
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