I am amazed that there is to be a consultation regarding the public toilets along the Esplanade after all the publicity and comment already made over the past year.

It was obvious to most that £400,000 would not be enough to complete all the work to upgrade them but it would go a long way towards improving what is already there. 

I am told that the underground facilities are adequate for public toilets apart from when they were open during the night time and rough sleepers and addicts used them for shelter. 

There is no mention whatsoever in the Echo report on April 11 of facilities for the disabled and less abled or indeed mothers with young children who cannot haul a buggy up and down the steps each time little ones need to use the toilet. 

We know the fascination children have for something new like toilets, requests for which are ignored at parents’ peril!

Perhaps spend money on decoration and properly maintaining the existing facilities and building a block for the disabled who pay in advance to enter using a Radar Key and also another few for those who are less abled or are guardians of young children, which do not require such a key. Please do not call them Mother and Baby facilities as they should allow male guardians to use them with their little ones. All too often I see male guardians have to take little ones in to male toilets in shops etc. which is not at all ideal but they themselves are not able to use ‘women toilets.

I am pleased to see that the temporary block is to remain, for this season at least, by the Pavilion.

An entry fee to use facilities should be levelled at no more than 20p I feel, as families would not be able to afford up to £1 a time and would deter them from visiting the beach or, as I have already witnessed, allowing children to use the beach for this purpose. Let’s make families, visitors, residents and the less able feel welcome in Weymouth and not make it difficult them’ to spend a penny’.

Please include people (and there are still a lot out there) who cannot or will not use a computer in surveys such as this. Libraries and council offices are accessible to most who could complete a paper copy if they want to take part.

Weymouth resident
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