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To: Herefordshire Council
Keep Castle Green Public Toilets Open Beyond 4.30pm!!
The Castle Green Public Toilets Should Remain Open Beyond 4.30pm For People To Enjoy The Park & Sunshine Freely Throughout The Summer Daytimes.
For the Hereford Castle Green public toilets to remain open until 7.30pm in the Spring through to the Autumn and to be open until at least 5.30pm in Winter months.
For the Hereford Castle Green public toilets to remain open until 7.30pm in the Spring through to the Autumn and to be open until at least 5.30pm in Winter months.
Why is this important?
It feels like there is zero logic behind the open hours of the public toilets in Castle Green. They close at 4.30pm each day, the same time as many students finish college and a full hour before the shops in town close and before many people even finish work to come out to enjoy the park and the beautiful weather.
This seems absolutely absurd and ridiculous (and unheard of in any other city I personally have visited) that public toilets should close so early. For MEN, it means having to, still in the prime of the day, find a bush or tree to relieve themselves behind (which is a public decency issue). For WOMEN however, this is made an issue which is in fact deeply sexist as they are left no option but to have to end their time in the park to either go home, or have to trek a long way away from the park into town to find a shop, in which toilets are intended for paying customers only.
People should be able to visit and sit in the park after work without having to find a bush to relieve themselves in, or worse yet, feel they have to go home when they begin to feel the need to use the bathroom.
Access to the taps to refill water bottles should still be avalaible throughout this period also.
There is no reason I can see either why this should be an issue for the council employee who opens up & closes the toilets. Surely, it is only necessary for them to come out briefly to clean and lock up the toilets so why should it make any difference if this is done at 4.30pm or 7.30pm?
I can understand them closing earlier in the winter, perhaps at 5.30 or 6pm, but in the summer why should they not remain open until 7.30pm as in other normal civilised cities?
This seems absolutely absurd and ridiculous (and unheard of in any other city I personally have visited) that public toilets should close so early. For MEN, it means having to, still in the prime of the day, find a bush or tree to relieve themselves behind (which is a public decency issue). For WOMEN however, this is made an issue which is in fact deeply sexist as they are left no option but to have to end their time in the park to either go home, or have to trek a long way away from the park into town to find a shop, in which toilets are intended for paying customers only.
People should be able to visit and sit in the park after work without having to find a bush to relieve themselves in, or worse yet, feel they have to go home when they begin to feel the need to use the bathroom.
Access to the taps to refill water bottles should still be avalaible throughout this period also.
There is no reason I can see either why this should be an issue for the council employee who opens up & closes the toilets. Surely, it is only necessary for them to come out briefly to clean and lock up the toilets so why should it make any difference if this is done at 4.30pm or 7.30pm?
I can understand them closing earlier in the winter, perhaps at 5.30 or 6pm, but in the summer why should they not remain open until 7.30pm as in other normal civilised cities?
