Check a spot
A pre-check for safety, access and toilets, to help you look for a place to clean or hold an event.
Back to the map Events Hotspots Staying safe notes
This page is not a risk assessment. It helps you look at a place before you go. We only show access notes that are already on this site, or toilets, benches and parking listed on OpenStreetMap. Those listings can be out of date or missing. If nothing is listed, that does not mean there are no toilets. Visit if you can, and use your own judgement. Groups should still use their own paperwork, signed off by their organisation. The group pick guidelines are also not a risk assessment.
What you need
Tick what matters, then pick a pin. The map and the list keep the places that match. You can also tap an empty part of the map to drop your own planning pin. Planning pins stay on this device and are not published.
Pick a place on the map or from the list. Nearby toilets load from OpenStreetMap.
The interactive map needs JavaScript. You can still use the checklist below, or open the main map.
Tap a pin to check that place. Or tap an empty part of the map to drop your own planning pin.
Matching places
The same places as the map, as a list, if the map is hard to use.
- The list fills in when the map loads.
This place
Your pre-check
Fill this in from what you know, or from what you see when you visit. These notes stay on your device. They are not published on the map.
A safer plan
- Check the place first. Old reports may no longer be right.
- Choose public paths. Check access, weather and tides before you go.
- Use gloves and a litter picker. Stay away from roads, steep banks and water edges.
- Leave needles, chemicals, heavy items and fly-tipping for the council.
- Agree how bags will be collected. See council pick-up help.
- Tell someone where you are going and when you will be back. Carry a charged phone.
- Take breaks. A small safe clean is enough.
Read the staying safe notes before you go. Groups can print the group pick guidelines. That sheet is not a risk assessment.
Weather: Met Office forecast. Beach tides: Ardrossan, Irvine, Troon, Ayr, Girvan.
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