Former P.O. to be toilet?

Press, 31 January 1985, Page 13

Former P.O. to be toilet?

Hornby’s toilet campaign took another turn yesterday. Mr Brian Brown is considering buying the former Hornby Post Office to convert it into a 24-hour creche, rest-rooms and toilet. Mr Brown, a local shop owner, wrote to the Lands and Survey Department this week seeking first option on the brick building on the Main South Road, by the Hornby shopping centre. He has been campaigning for almost a year to get toilets built in Hornby. Recently he unsuccessfully billed the Hornby District Community Council for costs he had incurred providing a toilet in his Hornby shop. The building he is considering buying houses the Social Welfare Department, but it would soon be vacant,

he said. If he bought the building, valued at $lOO,OOO, he would offer it for sale to the council. His bill for providing the toilet in his shop, about $2500, would be added to the price he would sell it for, but he did not want any profit. “I just want to show the council there is a site available,” he said. The council had failed to find a suitable site after searching for 12 months, but he had found one after only two weeks, he said. “It makes you wonder how hard they looked.” If the council did not want to buy the building from him, he would keep it as a “good business proposition,” possibly with Space Invader machines in the rest-rooms, said Mr Brown.