Man takes action to stop bus drivers urinating on his wall

People power has won out in Chippenham after David Small's one-man crusade to get the bus station toilets back has ended in victory.

Dad-of-two Mr Small, 44, whose Bakehouse Close home backs onto the bus station, took North Wiltshire District Council to the local government ombudsman last year for not moving swiftly enough to solve the problem of urinating bus drivers at the station.

Mr Small has captured up to 100 bus drivers on camera, urinating in the station since the toilets were removed in 2006. He is now demanding that the council confirm when and where the toilets will be installed.



He fears the district council is delaying the decision until Wiltshire becomes a unitary authority in April 2009, when they will no longer have any jurisdiction over the bus station toilets.

Mr Small said: "It is not a solution to simply say the toilets will return, there must be definite plans and a schedule of the work. This is a huge problem and one I refuse to live with for a fourth year. I do not have a problem with the bus drivers because they need to relieve themselves somewhere, but something needs to be done.

"I was outraged when I learnt that the council were spending £400 a month on using chemicals to wash away the urine from the station. The chemicals were running in my garden and into our water system."