THERE has rightly been a hornets’ nest stirred up due to the closure of an additional eight public toilet blocks in Poole.

I have been active at meetings and through written communication in opposing closures. I understand there are cost implications but cannot accept a senior officer’s report categorically stating that the underpinning rationale for keeping toilets open is the wide usage of the facilities.

This was a report presented to Cabinet. When queried, the officer conceded there had been no survey undertaken at Baiter Park toilets and that other toilet blocks remaining open had not been surveyed for at least six years!

So, no recognition of the wide group usage at Baiter, including many large school groups, foreign language groups, regular disabled groups, visitors to Marie Curie Field of Hope, groups from great distances, residents of Poole, delivery and taxi drivers...the list goes on.

How wide do these groups have to be to be noticed?

MIKE RANDALL

Chair Parkstone Bay Association, Catalina Drive, Poole

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