A plan to close public toilets in Malvern, Upton and Tenbury has angered town councils and residents.

Locals says they do not want to lose vital facilities and claim they were not properly consulted before the district council's executive committee made the decision.

As a result of these concerns, five members of the district council have called for the issue to be debated at a meeting of the full council on Tuesday (September 27).

One of them is Upton ward councillor Mary Wilkinson, who will be raising an emergency petition against the closure of toilets in Upton High Street this weekend.

At a meeting of a Upton Town Council this week she said: "I'm not saying we're going to win this, but by golly we're going to try."

Although the decision has been "called in" for further consideration, the district council could still approve it.

Meanwhile, town councillors from Upton, Malvern and Tenbury Wells met this week to discuss the proposed closures. Malvern Town Council chairman Ralph Madden said each council planned to ask the district to delay the toilet closures until a "meaningful and open discussion" had taken place.

He said all three councils had only been consulted once, back in April 2004.

West Worcestershire MP Sir Michael Spicer said he was "horrified" to learn of the plan to close pubic toilets and had written to district council chief executive Chris Bocock expressing his concern.