Following on from the letter regarding litter in The Triangle area of Bournemouth (Have Your Say, July 12), why doesn’t Bournemouth council make it a condition of granting a licence to a takeaway food outlet that the holder of the licence is responsible for the litter on the pavement outside his premises and within a certain area?

The licence should also include a condition that the premises employ litter pickers to go onto the street and pick up the litter.

I don’t know if they do it in this area but when I worked in London a national takeaway franchise did this and it made a tremendous difference to the state of the road and pavement.

These takeaways give out packaging that is discarded by their customers. Why shouldn’t they be made responsible for it?

Denis Dean, Harting Road, Bournemouth