AS a number of public toilets face being flushed down the pan under a controversial cost-cutting exercise by Powys County Council campaigns are getting underway across the county.

In Talybont-on-Usk, near Brecon, residents are collecting a petition in an effort to try and re-open the facility while in Glasbury-on-Wye the community council is attempting to try and find funding to keep village toilets open.

The riverside toilets in Glasbury, beside the A438, remain open as the community council has expressed an interest in taking ownership of the conveniences from Powys County Council.

However the unitary authority has already closed its toilets next door to the Star Inn in Talybont as no-one has come forward to express an interest in taking over their maintenance.

The county council announced in August it would close 38 toilets but has agreed where a town or community council or community group has expressed a serious interest in taking responsibility for the toilets they will remain open until the end of December.

Toilets at Talgarth Town Hall have re-opened however after they were among 12 toilets closed from the beginning of November.

Powys council agreed to re-open the toilets after Talgarth Town Council only expressed an interest in taking them over after the October deadline.

Toilets which closed from the beginning of November: Town Hall, Llandrindod Wells; Cemetery, Presteigne (Stapleton); Cemetery, Rhayader; Dark Lane car park, Rhayader; The Groe, Cwmdeuddwr, Rhayader; Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon; Cradoc Cemetery, Brecon; Kensington, Brecon; Upper Meadow (Sports Field), Brecon Promenade; High Street, Sennybridge; Adjacent, White Hart, Talybont.

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