After October eye tests reception questions and hand sterilising in Maylord
Street, Hereford, I asked my own waiting room question: “The toilet?”
Answer:
“Our customer toilet is currently out of bounds — no-one to clean it at present. If you are
desperate, you could nip over to the toilet at M&S and then get back
here for your appointment.”
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| Map showing Hereford's toilet hotspot plus Maylord Street plus Widemarsh Street, which is a falls hotspot |
Customers’ mobility and other
requirements vary, as do toilet queue lengths with or without ‘social
distancing’. (And nearby Widemarsh Street is a notorious falls hotspot.) So it’s better that we ask our own questions before we are
desperate.
Even before a dodgy post-Brexit US-USA trade deal
wipes out our NHS, how about these questions affecting more people than
those of us going for free eye tests:
What toilet provisions have
been accounted for in the planning of Hereford GPs’ ‘Super Surgery’ on
which construction has already begun?
What impacts does Post-Covid-19 lockdown bring to Planning considerations?
And before the UK is "taken to the cleaners" by global profiteers, what about the working conditions of cleaners?
The
deadline for responses to the UK Government’s Planning White Paper is
October 29th, while that White Paper is oriented to central government
overruling local democracy. Whose interests does it serve, and therefore
what institutions are more likely to devote staff time to responding
while local democracy is starved of cash while laundered money from abroad further damages UK democracy?
PS: From my e-mail inbox, fresh in today:
"oh golly, toilets are such an issue for me. at present, it is difficult to escape hereford. i would like to catch bus to ross just for a change of scene but am anxious that i won't find a convenience in ross! with my elderly female bladder, i don't travel far from sanctuary of my own bathroom these days!
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