I agree totally with the views expressed by Leslie Lipton (Have Your Say, August 27) concerning Poole council’s policy over the allocation of beach huts.

The notion of closing a 10-year waiting list on what is a community resource is a nonsense and grossly unfair.

It is plain to any reasonable person who uses the beach that by far and away the majority of the beach huts are rarely used.

It is wrong that people can hold on to them for decades just because they continue to pay the yearly fee.

As such, they seem to become ‘family property’ by default.

It would be interesting to know just how many of these huts have been ‘owned’ in this way for 20 years or more. Might I suggest that the council introduce a limit by way of a fixed contract of five years on each beach hut.

Those who have already had theirs for five years or longer would be required to vacate them when their tenancy of the hut comes up for renewal.

This would then permit those on the list who at present wait in vain for one, to get the chance to use this facility.

Mark Healy, Sopwith Crescent, Wimborne