loo of the year awards loo of the year awards the loo of the year awards are run to celebrate the best public toilets in the united kingdom, and promote high standards. loo of the year awardsawarded forrecognising the best toilets in britain, ireland and the channel islandscountryunited kingdomfirst awarded1987 (1987)websiteloo.co.uk the awards competition receives sponsorship from a number of companies involved in providing products and services to washroom providers. history first introduced in 1987, the loo of the year awards competition has run annually, except for 1993. eligibility criteria any type of public facility ('away from home' toilet) can be nominated for consideration. there are sixty one award categories. eligible facilities can be located in england, scotland, wales or ireland. anyone can submit a nomination—staff, customers, visitors, managers, owners or contractors—but owners or managers must authorise entries. judging criteria after an unannounced inspection from an authorised loo of the year awards inspector, nominees are graded on a scale from silver to diamond. grades are awarded based on one hundred and one criteria, and are judged on both male and female facilities, as well as any baby changing and accessible facilities provided. the criteria include cleanliness, decor, signage, accessibility and customer care. awards awards are given in one of sixty one categories. an entrant receiving a diamond or possibly a platinum grading will be considered for one a number of major national awards in each of england, scotland, wales and ireland: national category winners (up to sixty-one categories in each country) national accessible toilet winner national (baby) changing facilities winner public toilet entries - national winner individual category entries - national winner changing places toilet entries - national winner space to change toilet entries - national winner eco friendly toilet - national winner local authority award - national winner toilets in education - national winner hygiene room - national winner other awards include: individual uk loo of the year trophythe winner of this award is selected from one of the eight national winners in the public toilet entries and the individual category entries categories above. uk corporate provider trophythe winner of this award is selected from organizations or authorities entering ten or more different locations and winning five or more five-star awards. champions' league – standards of excellence awardsthis award is presented to organizations or local authorities winning five or more five-star awards and who, in the inspectors' opinion, are maintaining a consistently high standard of management in all their loo of the year awards entries. local authority premier leaguemembership in the league is granted to the top twenty local authority public toilet providers. attendant of the year awardsthese "people awards" are open to all full-time attendants, as well as employed cleaning staff and retained cleaning contractors. separate attendant of the year award certificates are awarded in england, scotland, wales and northern ireland with commended and national winners for each country. in addition, the overall uk winner (either an individual, in-house cleaning team or external contractor) is awarded the uk washroom cleaner of the year trophy. overall "loo of the year" trophy winners gatwick airport toilets in 2018; the airport was the 2016 "loo of the year" winner the winner of this category is presented with a golden loo seat trophy. year winner sector 1987 hatton gardens hotel, upton st leonards hospitality 1988 the lido, worthing local authority 1989 children's world stores retail 1990 eagle and child, gwaenysgor, n.wales hospitality 1991 grampian road, aviemore, scotland local authority 1992 welcome break services, m3, farnborough transport 1993 no competition 1994 heritage motor centre, gaydon heritage 1995 city of westminster council local authority 1996 portsmouth historic dockyard heritage 1997 the manor hotel, st. albans hospitality 1998 eurotunnel, folkestone transport 1999 the national trust, gibside estate, tyne & wear heritage 2000 the oracle, reading retail 2001 jd weatherspoon hospitality 2002 east lothian council, scotland local authority 2003 the eden project, bodelva, cornwall leisure 2004 the highland council, scotland local authority 2005 moto hospitality transport 2006 the camping and caravaning club holiday parks 2007 the trafford centre, manchester retail 2008 asda stores retail 2009 mcdonald's hospitality 2010 jd wetherspoon hospitality 2011 ceredigion county council local authority 2012 staffordshire county council local authority 2013 brighton & hove city council local authority 2014 danfo uk local authority 2015 we clean cleaning & fm 2016 gatwick airport transport 2017 abm cleaning & fm 2018 j d wetherspoon hospitality 2019 intu retail 2020 wychavon district council local authority 2021 paultons park leisure