Charles Goode's comments about the topsy-turvy organisation of the George Street work prompt me to ask: What's so special about builders and roadworkers that they get chemical lavatories nearby, while the rest of us - as we stroll across the city - find Brighton and Hove City Council has closed down most of the public lavatories and tells us to brave the frosty stares of publicans and shopkeepers as, agonised, we slip into their premises?

I begin to suspect the council's ruling body is in fact some alien, bladderless race.

One hopes the craft from which they emerged will soon return to the Old Steine and spirit them back across the galaxy.

-Mark Bitton, Yeoman Mews, Brighton