Changing Places at Motorway Services
Changing Places toilets have been fitted to motorway service areas since 2011, but progress providing more was slow. A high-profile campaign brought attention to the shortcomings of traditional disabled toilet facilities.
After the Cherwell Valley trial, in 2016 all three of the main operators agreed to provide Changing Places facilities whenever a refurbishment allows for it. The three had suggested they would be willing to work together to ensure that the main motorways were covered as quickly as possible.
Throughout 2019, the Department for Transport awarded funding to transport hubs looking to install a new Changing Places toilet. This funding was provided in partnership with Muscular Dystrophy UK, under the government's Inclusive Transport Strategy. The 2022 regulations ruled that all service areas must have a Changing Places facility for the first time. A number of new facilities are expected to be built in 2023, mostly in separate, prefabricated buildings.
The last major service area to open without any disabled toilets at all was Scotch Corner in 1980. Things have come far since then, but still have a long way to go. There have been suggestions that the operators will be working together to ensure that, between them, the whole motorway network has a good coverage of accessible toilet facilities.
Services With Changing Places
See also: Map of services with a Changing Places
The following services are listed in our database as having a Changing Places facility.
You can view more information by tapping on the name of the service area. You can also customise your search by ensuring that the 'Changing Places' box is ticked when you search our database. Unlike our normal policy, for this list we have marked services as "northbound only" (or similar) even if there is a bridge between the two sides.
- Annandale Water (A74(M) at J16)
- Baldock (A1(M)/A1 at J10)
- Beaconsfield (M40 at J2)
- Birch (M62 between J18 and J19)
- Blyth (A1(M)/A1 at J34)
- Burton-in-Kendal (M6 northbound between J35 and J36) (northbound only)
- Cairn Lodge (M74 at J11 and J12)
- Cambridge (A14 at J24 and J24A)
- Charnock Richard (M6 between J27 and J28) (northbound only)
- Cherwell Valley (M40 at J10 and A43)
- Chester (M56 at J14)
- Clacket Lane (M25 between J5 and J6)
- Cobham (M25 between J9 and J10)
- Corley (M6 between J3 and J3A) (north-westbound only)
- Cornwall (A30 near Roche)
- Donington (M1 at J23A and J24, A42 and A50)
- Exeter (M5 at J30)
- Ferrybridge (M62 at J33, A1(M) south at J41, A1 north at J40)
- Fleet (M3 between J4A and J5) (south-westbound only)
- Frankley (M5 between J3 and J4) (northbound only)
- Gloucester (M5 between J11A and J12)
- Gordano (M5 at J19)
- Grantham North (A1 near Grantham)
- Heston (M4 between J2 and J3)
- Hilton Park (M6 between J10A and J11)
- Hopwood Park (M42 at J2)
- Keele (M6 between J15 and J16) (southbound only)
- Killington Lake (M6 southbound between J36 and J37) (southbound only)
- Knutsford (M6 between J18 and J19)
- Lancaster (M6 between J32 and J33)
- Leeds Skelton Lake (M1 at J45)
- Leeming Bar (A1(M) at J51)
- Leigh Delamere (M4 between J17 and J18)
- Lymm truckstop (M6 at J20 and M56 at J9)
- Maidstone (M20 at J8)
- Medway (M2 between J4 and J5)
- Membury (M4 between J14 and J15) (westbound only)
- Newport Pagnell (M1 between J14 and J15) (northbound only)
- Northampton (M1 at J15A and A43)
- Norton Canes (M6 Toll between JT6 and JT7)
- Peterborough (A1(M)/A1 at J17)
- Reading (M4 between J11 and J12)
- Rheged Centre (A66 between Keswick and the M6)
- Rugby (M6 at J1)
- Sarn Park (M4 at J36)
- Sedgemoor (M5 southbound between J21 and J22) (southbound only)
- Severn View (M48 at J1, M4 at J21 and J22)
- South Mimms (M25 at J23 and A1(M) at J1)
- Southwaite (M6 between J41 and J42) (northbound only)
- Stafford (M6 northbound between J14 and J15) (northbound only)
- Stafford (M6 southbound between J14 and J15) (southbound only)
- Strensham (M5 between J7 and J8)
- Tamworth (M42 at J10 and A5)
- Taunton Deane (M5 between J25 and J26)
- Tebay (M6 between J38 and J39)
- Thurrock (M25 at J30 and J31, A13 and A282)
- Tibshelf (M1 between J28 and J29)
- Tiverton (M5 at J27)
- Toddington (M1 between J11A and J12)
- Todhills (M6 between J44 and J45) (southbound only)
- Washington (A1(M) between J64 and J65) (northbound only)
- Watford Gap (M1 between J16 and J17) (northbound only)
- Wetherby (A1(M) at J46)
- Winchester (M3 between J8 and J9) (northbound only)
- Woolley Edge (M1 between J38 and J39)
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