New toilet needed at Umina

While we are pleased to see that the Central Coast Council has planned for a new toilet facility at Woy Woy (Peninsula News, November 11), we feel that even now it is superior to the public toilets in the Umina Beach shopping centre.

We have been ratepayers since 1982 and in that time we have not seen an upgrade of these public toilets.

They are rundown, dirty and smelly.

They have no dryers, paper towels or soap.

Umina Beach is now a large commercial centre and a tourist hub with the first-class Ocean Beach NRMA Holiday Park nearby.

At holiday times, particularly, there is an influx of tourists.

The public toilets are a disgrace and as residents of Umina Beach we are ashamed of them.

We have used toilet facilities in small country towns which are of a much higher standard than those in the Umina Beach shopping centre.

When the Gosford Council did nothing to improve the public toilets, we were hopeful that the new Central Coast Council would see the need for an urgent upgrade so that they were in keeping with the high standard of cafes, restaurants and shops in the commercial centre of Umina Beach.

We contacted Council over two years ago, in April 2017, expressing our concerns but unfortunately to no avail.

Email, 19 Nov 2019

Geoff and AngelaTurnbull, Umina Beach