Council chiefs had pledged to bring mobile 'super loos' to the town centre after the controversial axeing of the St John Street toilets earlier this year.

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But Mansfield District Council's capital programme until 2012/13 reveals there are no funds earmarked for the new facility — although it is on a back-up list of projects.

The news comes in the same week a committee of MPs has criticised local authorities for closing too many toilets without good reasons.

And a further project without specific funding allocated is the proposed £10.5m new library building at the Old Town Hall — which county councillors will put £4m into — although finance chiefs are applying for a grant towards some of the cost.

The capital programme was discussed at a full council meeting last week and was only narrowly approved after many councillors raised concerns.

Independent councillor Barry Answer said: "What I found really disappointing is the toilet provisions.

"It is the biggest impact for people in the town. We should have facilities in the town that are manned, if necessary by a private operation.

"If you go to the toilets in the Town Hall, what a mess they are.

"I do think taking this out of the scheme altogether is disrespectful to the people of this town who want to use decent facilities and are prepared to pay to use them."

Coun Roger Sutcliffe, portfolio holder for resources, admitted he had got serious concerns about the toilet provision in the town and said £10,000 would be spent on improvements to the bus station toilets.

He said: "I am very much in favour of having some decent provision in Mansfield and as soon as we can reasonably afford that, we will do it.

"The bus station toilets are the first impression people have when they get to Mansfield so I want to see them improved.

"We would love to do everything but we have only got limited resources."

And Labour councillor David Harrison criticised the amount earmarked for the Brownlow Road regeneration scheme in the capital programme.

He said: "There's another £3m for Brownlow Road.

"That very limited scheme with a couple of streets is going to cost £6.5m. That seems nutty.

"There's nothing in here about the real things that people are concerned about."

The approved capital programme includes spending of £27m on a wide range of projects, including a development at the Queen's Head pub to form a link between the new bus station and the town centre and a £500,000 energy efficient heating system at Sherwood Baths.

But plans for the development of an office facility at the old Maltings building, on Midworth Street, are also on the list of projects with no funding set out, although the authority is spending £50,000 on security there.

After the meeting, Labour Group leader Coun Andy Wetton told Chad: "Is the new library going to happen or isn't it? The county council have agreed to put the funds in.