The conveniences on Railway Street have been the subject of negative comments over the years, with users often branding them as disgusting, dirty and smelly.

A number of vandal attacks has led to them being closed on occasions, and although the responsibility of East Riding Council, Pocklington Town Council had kept an eye on them.

But now the council offices have moved to George Street, the toilets’ condition seems to have deteriorated further.

Market Weighton resident Carol Dexter contacted the Post to express her disgust.

She said: “They’re an absolute disgrace. They’re just stained and grubby. The problem is that there is nowhere else to go and people who come off the coach parties have to use them.”

Town clerk Richard Wood said: “They are absolutely awful, especially for a town as nice as this. Most things in the town are quite nice – then you go into the toilets.”

However, East Riding Council says that work on the new library and improvements to the toilets will begin next month or July and finish in early 2009.

There are still reservations from Pocklington Town Council.

It originally believed that the toilet entrances would be made inside the new library layout, but have since been informed that they will continue to face directly on to the pavement.

The councillors said that an internal entrance would have discouraged further vandalism and an overhaul of the facilities would have helped.

Since then they have considered the possibility of building a new toilet block in another area of the town.

Pocklington Mayor Richard Bryon said: “We have been disappointed by the final plans put forward by East Riding Council – we wanted better public toilets for this town and we do not think they have done this.”