Public toilets: more than a matter of convenience (opens in new tab)

Readers respond to an editorial on the need for more provision of toilets in our towns and citiesIn response to your editorial (Public spaces need public conveniences, 24 April), our research has found that one of the biggest barriers preventing the restoration of existing provision or building new provision of public toilets is our wider cultural taboo of bodily functions.Time and again we have found that regeneration documents refer to public toilets as “amenities”, “necessities”, or “facil...