• WESTMINSTER City Council has just provided over £12million for public toilet provision.

If you want to spend a penny while shopping in Queen’s Crescent, Camden, tough.

There was a 20p public toilet which the council removed. In an act of pure vandalism it secretly poured concrete into the mothballed underground Victorian toilet next to the pub.

One of the many consultants, the Decorators (cost £25k), suggested that the shops were used by those caught short, exampling the pub, seemingly unaware that Muslims might not find this acceptable or the pub itself.

Many Queen’s Crescent shops have notices that toilets are for customers only. Elderly shoppers and those on diuretics thus have difficulties in shopping on the crescent.

The secretly produced Gospel Oak Vision (actually a mirage) made no mention of public toilet facilities. So far as can be seen the current mysterious work (part of an over £3million makeover) in the crescent does not include a toilet.

It’s another example of officers working from home ignoring the needs of residents and, of course, the few remaining stallholders.

Perhaps our six local councillors can write and tell us what they are doing about this lack.

In Westminster, apart from it having a caring council, one of the spurs to action was people weeing in the street.

Heaven forfend I should have to do this.

MICK FARRANT, NW5