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Judged best CAMRA magazine for the last four years FREE COPY Issue 106 Oct / Nov 2011 NDcoverStrip9-2011b:Layout 1 19/9/11 13:11 Page 1 Look out for the whisky- oak-aged hogsheads of Spyke We’re in the main marquee and the Castle Rock Tavern near the bandstand g’s Ale for more information on Spyke Golding’s Ale and other Goldin seasonal specials please see pages 7 & 31 Useful Drinker Information 11,000 copies of the Nottingham Drinker are distributed www.consumerdirect.gov.uk free of charge to over 300 outlets in the Nottingham area For comments, complaints or objections about pub alterations etc, including libraries, the Tourist Information Centre and pubs in or if you wish to inspect plans for proposed pub developments Nottingham, outlying villages and local towns. It is published contact the local authority planning departments. 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Or visit www.asa.org.uk where you can complain online Six advertisements can be bought for the discounted price of five (one years worth). Call Ray Blockley on 0115 968 0709 Brewery Liaison Officers or 078 172 40940; Please contact these officers if you have any comments, queries or complaints about a local brewery. or e-mail: [email protected] for details. Publication dates Alcazar - Ray Kirby [email protected] The next issue of Nottingham Drinker (issue 107) will be Blue Monkey - Nigel Johnson [email protected] published on Thursday 24th Nov 2011 and will be available Castle Rock - David Mason [email protected] from the branch meeting at the Trent Bridde Inn. Caythorpe - Ian Barber [email protected] nd Flipside - Howard Clark [email protected] The ND 107 copy deadline is: Wed 2 Nov 2011. 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NG15 6ND Tel: 0115 968 0709 or 078 172 40940 Acknowledgements E-mail: [email protected] Thanks to the following people for editorial contributions to this issue of ND: Steve Armstrong, Ray Blockley, Philip Darby, Bob Membership Secretary Douglas, Mick Draycott, Bridget Edwards, Colin Elmhirst, Nigel Alan Ward: [email protected] Johnson, Ray Kirby, John Lomas, Andrew Ludlow, David Mason, Young Members Coordinator Dylan Pavier, Graham Percy, Steve Rogerson, Nick Tegerdine, Alan Laura Brown: [email protected] Ward, Steve Westby, John Westlake, Colin Wilde, and Dee Wright. Socials and Trips © Nottingham CAMRA. 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Consumer Direct - 08454 04 05 06 2 www.nottinghamcamra.org Oct / Nov 2011 www.nottinghamcamra.org Oct / Nov 2011 Up front The Bees In Our Collective Bonnet To Go Or Not To Go? - The Great (Lack Of) Public Loo’s Debate ottingham CAMRA are grateful to Inspector Leona Scurr So the issue has been put back into the hands of Local Authorities for reminding us that it is illegal for people to urinate in but there is no compunction for them to act and in these difficult Nthe street and she has confirmed that her officers: “will not financial times, it is hard to see where additional resources can be tolerate people using the streets in this way, and my officers will found for public toilets. be taking positive action to make people think So is there an alternative? twice” (see ND105). Well first of all Local Authorities had a duty Nottingham CAMRA agrees that it is something under the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 to that should be stopped - but why have formulate and implement a strategy to reduce seemingly law abiding members of the public crime and disorder in their area. So the started to act in this way? provision of public toilet provision should be The Experience Nottingham web site something the City Council (and other local explains that since shutting the large public authorities) are working on to provide to toilets in the Old Market square in 2006 the comply with this requirement (urinating in the following facilities are available: CLOSED street is a criminal offence). • Greyhound Street, opposite the As building new toilets does seem unlikely, tourism centre ND would like to suggest to Nottingham City • Both the Victoria and Broadmarsh Council some schemes that have proved shopping centres have fully accessible successful elsewhere: toilets as does the Trinity square car • Work in partnership with local businesses park. (pubs, restaurants, cafes, community centres, What the web site does not tell you is that The Greyhound Street retail stores, council offices and supermarkets) to provide facility closes at 8.00pm as does the Victoria Shopping Centre; public access to toilets. If it is not possible to reach a Broadmarsh Shopping centre shuts at 6.30pm and there are no voluntary agreement then consideration should be given to signs anywhere for the Trinity Square Car Park imposing this option within licence conditions. toilet (apparently it is located on the second Those who agree to cooperate can be offered a floor, although when I contacted the City reduction in their business rates to reflect that Council they could not tell me what hours it a service is being provided to the public. was open). • Section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 allows a local planning Historically most towns and cities have had authority to enter into a legally binding a number of public toilets with the first ones agreement or planning obligation with a land appearing in 1852, but over the years, for a developer and this can cover the provision variety of reasons, new toilets have not been of toilet facilities (Tesco’s in Ilminster were built and existing ones shut. required to do this). Part of the problem is due to the wording • Environmental health officers can use of the Public Health Act of 1936. The act their powers to ensure that public toilets are provides Local Authorities with the power to provided and maintained for public use in provide public toilets but does not impose a relevant commercial premises.