public convenience

"We welcome people to come, but we don't want our coffee shops to become public conveniences."

Janet's is no bog standard toilet transformation and is one of the hundreds of former public conveniences sold off by cash-strapped councils across the UK every year.

Since those heady days, the city's public conveniences have been through a number of highs and lows.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission had allowed the company’s project to move forward in 2018 by granting PennEast a so-called certificate of public convenience and necessity, but lawsuits followed.

Critics have raised concerns that the “public convenience or necessity” process could pave the way for those with political connections to snag coveted sites.