Dear editor - I would like to know why more and more public conveniences are being converted to individual units both for men and women.

Who has thought up this idea? The effect is that one has to wait in the open for a unit to be free, whereas beforehand you could get out of the weather while you waited.

It is also not an economical use of space, nor of finance, because a separate hand basin and drying facility has to be provided for each WC, and, in the case of the men's toilets, a row of urinals is often all that is needed. Of course, some of these new units need not a penny but 20 pence in the slot, and if you don't happen to have a 20 pence piece you cannot go.

The final argument against these new units is that they are claustrophobic.

Why could the council not have simply put the slot machines that we used to have on each cubicle door?

This is not an initiative that is confined to Pembrokeshire because the same thing is happening to the car park toilets in Carmarthen.

Tony Ward Lawrenny.