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Call to extend tax relief on public toilets to libraries and community centres

The call came as peers continued their scrutiny of the Non-Domestic Rating (Public Lavatories) Bill. The legislation, which will cover England and Wales, aims to foster the provision of public toilets by exempting them from business rates. Labour frontbencher Lord Kennedy of Southwark pressed for the tax relief to also apply to libraries, community centres, and other council properties, which provided lavatory facilities to the public. Urging the Bill to be extended, he said: “There are clear and undeniable public health benefits to having toilets that are available for the public to use. “This amendment seeks to increase that provision.

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