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Peckham is a major shopping centre in Southwark, thronging with shoppers and visitors. The lack of public toilets creates serious problems. Local residents have for many years campaigned for public toilets. Local residents and traders presented a petition with over 4000 signatures to the Council in September 2013. The petition asked that the provision of public toilets should be part of the redesign of the area in front of Peckham Rye station. This was included in the brief for the Peckham CoDesign process between August and October 2014. Planning permission was granted in 2016 on the Council's own planning application for the station square works, including an arch reserved for the public toilets. These works are scheduled to start in 2024 to be competed in 2025. We need public discussion now about the design and management of the new public toilets.