HVB plans to use a barrier-free toilet in Kapitän-Willi-Freter-Platz

Heiligenhafener Verkehrsbetriebe (HVB) is planning a 12-square-meter toilet facility in Kapitän-Willi-Freter-Platz, which will also be accessible to people with severe disabilities. Support is 60 percent.

Heiligenhafen – “The current situation without one toilet for all is ‘totally unacceptable and unsustainable for Heiligenhavn,’” says HVB General Manager Joachim Gabriel. There are barrier-free toilets in many public spaces in Warderstadt, but the common barrier-free toilet is completely unsuitable for people who They suffer from severe and multiple disabilities.

For this reason, the public transport company Heiligenhafen has been working for some time to create a so-called “toilet for everyone”. Among other things, the room has a surface area of ​​twelve square metres, an adjustable nursing bed with foldable side rails, a roof or a standing lift for safe transportation from a wheelchair to a nursing bed or toilet, and automatic door opening.

“Captain-Willi-Freter-Platz in Heiligenhafen would be a good location for this ‘everyone’s first toilet.’” says Joachim Gabriel, who recently presented the project to Aktivregion Wagrien-Fehmarn, “There is already a public restroom on this site, which the show could reasonably complement Here it is rated as ‘absolutely worth the funding’.

€200,000 in costs and 60% of the funding

The net investment costs are close to 200,000 euros, and the subsidy will be 60 percent, HVB reports. The planning request for the site on Kapitän-Willi-Freter-Platz has already been submitted, but the building permit is not yet available. “Delivery and construction will be announced to the public on the tender platform this week. Once the grant is approved, the application can then be submitted. Implementation is expected to take place in the first quarter of 2023,” concludes Joachim Gabriel, who is in direct contact with the representative of people with Disability in Heiligenhafen, Michael Roach, on this issue. Ida Ralph, chair of the Advisory Council for Persons with Disabilities in East Holstein, also supports the project.