The council said that while there are ongoing repairs to the facilities at Buenos Ayres and the Harbour Arm, the women's toilets at The Centre are currently closed due to fire damage. If there are some, they're disgustingly dirty,' she said. 'I have to go to the loo every half hour. Last year, Emin spoke about the 'disgustingly dirty' public toilets she had been forced to use in the town, because living with a urostomy bag means she needs to use the bathroom more frequently than before. 'As a citizen of Margate, and I am sure many small businesses will greatly benefit from the regeneration of public loos, the first ones being by the clock tower.' 'Disgustingly dirty' 'Especially sad when there are a lot of public toilets that have just been left to go into disrepair,' she said. The 59-year-old added that she was appalled to see human excrement on the beach and along the sea wall. 'I can just about cope though because I live in Margate, but I wonder how it is for all the people who come to visit Margate, the children on the beach, the older people, people with disabilities.' 'For myself, who has a disability of having a urostomy bag, I often find myself begging and showing my disability card to use toilets in shops,' she said. Thanet District Council has installed some portable loos, which will remain in place until late September.īut Ms Emin, who battled bladder cancer during lockdown and now has a urostomy bag, is calling for the public toilets across the town to be improved.

The artist Tracey Emin said she has been forced to 'beg' to use shop toilets in Margate because of a lack of public facilities in her home town.Ī number of toilets in Margate, Kent, have been closed while repair works are being carried out.

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