Letter: No toilets? No caretaker!

If you allow your public toilets to be closed as we did in Hinderwell, then you lose your caretaker/road sweeper person.

We have no-one in Hinderwell who keeps the village tidy, sweeps the roads or pavements, or empties the litter bins.

When I asked why this was when other surrounding villages had somebody I was told that if you lose your public toilet, then you lose your caretaker person.

Do we really want people going to the toilet in lay-bys, over hedges or in bus shelters?

How are visitors, walkers or even people in cars supposed to cope? It’s a long walk on the Cleveland Way from Saltburn to Whitby without a public toilet.

The councillors and officers who close the toilets should try walking it one day.

K Davidson

High Street

Hinderwell