Kiama Council has officially unveiled the renovated amenities at Black Beach.
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Work began on the toilet block following requests for an audit of toilets in the municipality from Councillors Matt Brown and Andrew Sloan.
“The crews have not only given locals and visitors much better facilities at Black Beach, but designed a building that beautifully matches the surrounding area, especially our heritage buildings,” Cr Sloan said.
This toilet block must have one of the best views of any toilet block in Australia.
- Cr Matt Brown
Cr Brown was on site to give the Black Beach toilets his seal of approval.
“We’d like to congratulate the council crews who have worked quickly through winter to turn one of the oldest and most rundown toilet blocks into our newest and best,” Cr Brown said.
“This toilet block must have one of the best views of any toilet block in Australia.
“The workmanship here is second to none, this is another excellent facility for Kiama. We hold so many events down here at Black Beach and we need to ensure that we have safe, clean amenities for our residents and our visitors.
“It’s a showpiece, it’s a showstopper, I encourage everyone in Kiama to come and see this excellent new toilet block – Kiama has a lot of things to be proud of and this is just another one to add to the list.”
The upgraded Black Beach toilets are the first out of the blocks in what’s become known as the “great toilet clean-up” for the municipality.
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Director of engineering and works, Gino Belsito, said council was seeking funding from the NSW government to renovate three more toilets in the near future.
“We hoping to renovate toilet blocks at Beach Reserve in Kiama Downs, North Street Reserve in Minnamurra and Boat Harbour Reserve in Gerringong,” he said.
“However, the cost to ratepayers would be around $375,000.
“So we have applied to the NSW government Stronger Country Communities Fund, which if successful, would allow the work to happen this financial year.”
Council has completed an audit of all toilets in the municipality and ranked them according to the need for work to be done.
The ranking ranges from one as good to five as unserviceable.
“I’m pleased to report that of the 28 toilets we checked, the majority rank between one and three, with no toilet ranked as a five,” Mr Belsito said.
“The ranking has helped determine which toilets need the most urgent attention.”
The results of the toilet audit are available at www.kiama.nsw.gov.au.
