It is not often I see eye to eye with Lord Rogers but his letter to the leader of Brighton and Hove City Council will have struck a cord with thousands of residents and visitors who have had the displeasure of spending a penny at Brighton station.

Regrettably, the toilets at the railway station are not unique in our city. Toilet facilities at the top of St James's Street, for which there is a charge of 20p, are absolutely disgusting.

Other facilities, where they do exist in the city, are usually just as filthy, ill-maintained and, frankly, unhygienic.

When council taxpayers have put up with double-figure increases in taxes due to this council, while inflation has remained below three per cent and services have been cut, decent public toilets would have been some compensation.

Is it any wonder so many streets have a certain smell early in the morning? To think we even considered we might be a Capital of Culture.

-David Gold, Sudeley Terrace, Brighton