Toilet Facilities
Notes on a meeting between SP resident John Norris and the Archdeacon.Tuesday 2nd March
The facility should be in St Mary's which is used each week, and especiallyfor the Ladies who clean, do the flowers, and prepare refreshments.The children need a convenient convenience.
Access for All, has not been addressed, indeed I was told I was wrong insuggesting it was required.
The work of the Conservation Trust, and what they do in St Cyriac's is theiraffair, and should in the main be financed by them, as was the original rescue in1972.
The use in the above building is enhanced by the fact of the Spartan butacoustically interesting structure, and has been used three or four times a year inthe summer. The CCT have given up their idea of underfloor heating. as beingtoo expensive. The Choir, Cambridge Voices, are the chief performers, andprefer the building as it is.
Money set aside by the Diocese (£20,000) I think, was for a loo in St Mary's,the CCT have money enough to pay for their own. A Fund called the MarylooProject was popular, but I understand this now is going to the Trust.On the positive side, there is plenty of room in the existing vestry if thepresent furniture is re-adjusted. Some twelve years ago the vestry was filled withcupboards and shelves. Those in the inner vestry are to-day filled with rubbish,and could be removed. The record books and the communion vestments couldstay, and the rest stored elsewhere.
The plan for a loo through the North door was too ambitious. I think thearchitect was looking at his 13%, rather than a small, but fit for purpose facility.The lowest tender was £120,000 !!!
The work has started in St Cyriac's. I am not sure what to do next. Folkknew little of what was going on as the PCC meet in the wardens dining-room,and it seems the writing a cheque was the simple way to resolve this, but it is farfrom satisfactory.
I have only just come back to the PCC after nursing my wife who died twoyears ago with a brain tumor after four year of illness, and so missed the PCCdeliberations.