WELLINGTON Town Council is to look at recruiting a new firm to clean the public toilets at Longforth Road.

Concerns have been growing about the twice-daily toilet cleaning process by grounds maintenance firm idverde.

Cllr Marcus Barr has spoken frequently about the cleanliness of the toilets and has called into question whether they were being properly cleaned.

And at the town council’s latest monthly meeting it was agreed that a competitive tender process be launched to find a new cleaning company.

Cllr Barr, who put forward the proposal, said: "They (idverde) have been given chance after chance - but we now need to put this out to tender straight away. There will be cleaning companies queuing up to take on this job."

The council took ownership of the toilets in 2017 to prevent them being closed by the then-borough council and has since been maintaining them at a cost of about £20,000 a year.

Cllr Barr said the council should immediately instruct the current cleaners to reduce the work to one clean a day in a bid to save money.

But although the council voted in favour of putting the job out to tender, they agreed that they should - for the time being - stick with the existing arrangement of the toilets being cleaned twice a day.