Lionel Shaw, of Clarence Hill, Dartmouth, writes:

The imposition of the 20p entry fee to the public ­conveniences on the north embankment is doing harm to the town and casts the district council in a very poor, but laughable, light.

We understand the scheme is for a trial period and that only by sending written complaints will the council review it.

I would urge everyone to do so.

This money-making idea leaks like a colander – perhaps one in five users insert 20p, while others just knock on the door to be let in or wait until someone comes out.

We, the townspeople, were not consulted, and this, at the very least, flies in the face of Mr Cameron’s ‘big society’, in which such matters should be decided by those most affected.

Had we been asked, we would have organised a ­meeting, followed by a possible petition, as we did recently with the bus campaign.

Maybe it is not too late for a town councillor to step up to the plate.