CAMPAIGNERS fighting to save the Blue Anchor seafront public toilets, due to close at the end of March, have been assured that there are no plans to sell or demolish the building.
But at a public meeting on Monday (November 7) they were told that there was another bidder interested in taking over the facility.
There was now only four months in which to prepare a business plan to keep the toilets open, the meeting in Blue Anchor’s Driftwood Café was told.
Leading the bid to form a local community group to run the toilets as a possible community interest company, campaigner Alison Hart, of nearby Home Farm, told the meeting that she feared the group would run out of time.
She said: “I’m very concerned about the effects on tourism and the environment if the toilets are closed. The loos are well used throughout the summer by many groups
“If we lose them now, they will be lost forever. If that happens we will lose people and Blue Anchor will slowly die.”
District councillor Martin Dewdney, lead member for the environment, said there were no plans to sell the Blue Anchor facility.
He said that “a third party” had shown an interest in the property and there had been five or six meetings. The proposal was to keep a section of the toilets open and turn the rest into a small business premises.