ENTREPRENEURS will need to be feeling flush when a former lavatory building goes under the hammer.

The old public toilet on the corner of Astwood Road and Tintern Avenue, Worcester, first went on sale in September last year after plans to let the building went down the pan.

Now the city council has added land and a path to the property to make it more attractive to potential buyers.

And since it went back on the market a month ago, there has already been some interest, said Ian Heather, a property surveyor contracted to the city council.

Auctioneers Andrew Grant has set the guide price at £30,000 and are pitching the toilet as a "prominently located commercial development opportunity."

Worcester City Council, which owns the 15-year-old toilet, decided to dump the building because it was not being used and will be relieved to get rid of it.

"After a survey of all the toilet facilities in Worcester the city council felt this one was not being used to any great extent," said Mr Heather.

Planners at Worcester City Council have said the site is appropriate for office use but are open to other applications.

It is also convenient for the city centre being only one mile out of town.

"Retail would not be acceptable or residential, but it is an attractive and unusual location for a small office," said Mr Heather.

"But if people have use for an unusual building, it might just be adequate.

"It's got good sanitation."

Mr Heather said developers were more likely to want to buy the toilet than rent it because of the cost involved in converting the 343sq-ft building made up of male, female and toilets for the disabled with a service access at the rear.

The auction will be held at 6pm on Monday, June 23 at the Bank House hotel in Bransford.