So, another idea from West Dorset District Council bites the dust.

Not content with depriving thousands of residents and visitors alike of a simple human ‘necessity’ (I refuse to call it a ‘convenience’) the council abandons the unrealistic idea of building houses and reducing car parking spaces and puts the essential East Street toilets up for auction. (News, September 5).

If I had the money I’d buy them myself.

Yes, I know they’ll need maintaining and cleaning but surely the money the councils save from switching off the street lights (oh dear) could help finance that?

Let’s hope our town council can come up with the required amount and reinstate the only public toilet on the east side of our busy town.

The miniscule and totally inadequate hut in South Street doesn’t even meet the levels of availability that both East Street and the old town hall toilets offered.

Why aren’t the local people, town council and residents alike asked before WDDC and the county council come up with these ‘fait accompli’ situations?

The West Bay traffic pinch, new road layout and roping off of what was only a few years ago constructed for people who wanted to sit and stroll near the slipway are other examples of just how our so called representatives waste our money, time after time.

Good luck to the West Bay Forum in its attempt to bring some common sense to the notice of our ‘servants’ about the West Bay debacle.

We shouldn’t have to form such protest groups, we really shouldn’t.

Yours in everlasting hope of an end to the ‘we know what’s good for you brigade’ in Dorchester.

Stewart Owers St Katherine’s Avenue Bridport