Roebuck Joins Community Toilets Scheme
One of the signs advertising the scheme, near the Diggle Hotel.
One of our area’s most remote pubs has become the latest to join Saddleworth Parish Council’s community toilets scheme. The Roebuck Inn and Restaurant in Strinesdale takes the number of participating premises to 13.
The initiative was introduced last year to help make up for a lack of public toilets in our area, and is aimed at local residents and tourists alike. People are allowed to use the loos for free.
The Roebuck is the ninth pub to get involved, along with two shops, and two council buildings in the form of the Brownhill Centre and Uppermill Civic Hall. Each of the commercial premises receives between £600 and £1,000 a year in return for opening their toilets to the public.
The eight other pubs taking part so far are the Swan at Dobcross, the Diggle Hotel, the Granby Arms in Uppermill, the Old Bell in Delph, the Royal George in Greenfield, the Three Crowns at Scouthead, the White Hart at Lydgate, and the Ram’s Head above Denshaw.
The two shops involved are the Little Big Shop on Uppermill High Street, and the Saddleworth Craft Co-operative in Delph.
The Parish Council is spending £5,000 per year on the initiative, with a bit of extra funding coming from the Saddleworth and Lees District Partnership, which gets its money from Oldham Council.
You can visit the Roebuck’s website here. To read more about the toilets scheme in past Saddleworth News articles, click here.
Author: Jude Gidney - Editor
If you would like to share an interesting story, achievement, photo or something you just want to happily shout about please send it in an email to hello@saddleworthlife.com We'd ❤ to hear from you!!
