Seafront toilets are "disgusting" according to a recent visitor

A visitor to Eastbourne said he would be ‘reluctant to return’ after finding the pay-to-use toilets on the seafront in ‘a disgusting state’.

Christopher Kennedy, a resident from Heathfield, met with a group of friends at Holywell last week 

He said his friend ‘begrudgingly’ paid the £1 fee, recently enforced by Eastbourne Borough Council, only to find the women’s toilets in ‘a disgusting condition’.

"The toilets were in a disgusting state with faeces spread all over and a very strong smell of urine and with paper tissue strewn about,” Mr Kennedy said.

Mr Kennedy said he believes the toilets will ‘discourage both residents and visitors from visiting Eastbourne’.

"Eastbourne has long been popular with men and women of a more mature age and my big concern is that visitors from much further afield will not want to return if they have to spend £1 to ‘spend a penny’,” he added.