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A 25-year-old toilet block at the northern end of Ōrewa Reserve, near the main playground, is to be demolished and replaced because of its poor condition.
In a presentation to the local board last month, Auckland Council’s area operations Hibiscus and Bays and Upper Harbour acting manager, Sandra May, said it had been repainted twice and had maintenance work done, but it was a losing battle.
The roof leaks and the block has been closed many times due to vandalism or faults in the last few years, May said. It has now been assessed by Council as ‘beyond repair’.
Replacing the toilet comes in at an estimated cost of $330,000. The new toilet block will consist of two changing rooms, one standard unisex toilet and one accessible unisex toilet. The unit will include an exterior water fountain with dog bowl as well as external shower and foot wash. Because of its proximity to the beach, the unit is a prefabricated one, bolted to the concrete foundation and can be relocated if needed due to ongoing erosion of the foreshore.
