Gates to be installed outside Walsall’s civic centre – and this is the disgusting reason why
Gates are set to be installed outside Walsall’s civic centre to stop people urinating against it.
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Walsall Council has put forward a proposal to introduce the security measures in front of the steps to the entrance of the facility, which is to be a key access point for people getting married and registering births and deaths.
A spokesperson for the authority said they had encountered issues of people using the Darwall Street entrance as a toilet.
The gates are part of wider measures to refurbish the venue and provide a more “professional and welcoming” entrance.
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It previously served as the access to the ‘one stop shop’ for people wanting council services until that facility was moved to the Lichfield Street ‘hub’ in the nearby library building.