Claudia Gardner, Gleaner Writer

Chief Public Health Inspector for Hanover, Derrick Storer, has expressed dissatisfaction with the Hanover Parish Council for demolishing the lone public toilet facilities in the town of Lucea without informing the Hanover Health Department.

Mr. Storer made his comments during the regular monthly meeting of the council on Thursday. He said if the council does not provide adequate temporary sanitary facilities then the Health Department may have to close the Lucea market.

"I notice that the public sanitary convenience for Lucea has been demolished. The Hanover Health Department was very surprised to see that move; long before this council there was an agreement that because of the situation with the market, the sanitary convenience there would serve the needs of the market and the public because the market is operating without sanitary convenience of its own," Mr. Storer said.

Very Disappointed

"And to see the sanitary convenience being demolished without the Health Department even knowing or being asked to come and look at the alternative to see whether it is satisfactory or adequate for the car park, the general public and the market, we are very disappointed in that and we would really like to know what the alternatives are," Mr. Storer added.

But councillor of the Lucea division, Audley Gilpin, pleaded with Mr. Storer not to close the market. He said he did not know that the Health Department had not been informed of the council's plans.

"It comes as a real surprise to me that the council was not in dialogue with the Health Department concerning what is going on over there. If it is a standard matter that we should have consulted them to see that the alternative we have at this point in time is adequate, then we should have done so, no argument about," Councillor Gilpin said.