PLANS by Cornwall Council to cut funding for more than 100 toilets across the county, including at Gunnislake, have been put on hold.

The council has been asking parish and town councils to share the responsibility of public toilets in a bid to save more than £1-million.

Toilet facilities currently cost the council around £3-million a year to manage but the authority says it has no statutory duty to provide them.

But the proposals to withdraw funding have not been popular and Cornwall Council decided, last week, to defer the report on toilet provision for further discussions.

In a statement to the Times the council said: 'The report on the provision of public toilets in Cornwall, which was due to be discussed by the council's cabinet at its meeting on November 16, has been deferred to enable further work to be carried out on assessing the impact of potential changes on local communities and continuing discussions to be held with town and parish councils.'

Before plans were put on hold, Calstock Parish Council had been offered £6,000 by the council for the upkeep of the toilets at Calstock but would have to find the extra £8,000 to keep the Gunnislake toilets open. Parish councillors said they were committed to keeping open both facilities and had been looking at ways of financing them.