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Now that's what I call convenient!

11/10/2016

As our local authorities become more and more financially stretched, they are looking for a quick way to raise cash - and what better way than to sell the "family silver" - that's right, those derelict public loos that have been locked up for years.

For the imaginative buyer, and of course subject the usual planning consents, these buildings can be converted into interesting and quirky homes or used for a business.  

The Telegraph reports on one toilet building in South-East London imaginatively converted to a home, whilst another in Kentish Town has been converted to a cocktail bar.

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When she finally got the keys, her descent below ground revealed a Ladies and Gents placed end-to-end to form a long thin space furnished with rubble, rusty plumbing and unsavoury toilet cubicles complete with cisterns.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/buy/occupied-would-you-live-in-an-old-public-loo/
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