Sir, – It is my fate now to attend at Farnham Hospital once a month or so, and I always walk there and back. My route is – Waverley Lane – Tilford Road – Station Hill – South Street – Borelli Walk – Mike Hawthorn Drive – East Street and Hale Road. Every inch of this route is strewn with garbage, almost all of it food and drink wrappings of one form or another. It is a beastly sight, and a shocking prospect, for who knows what vermin wax fat on this muck? If bye-laws still exist as part of our legal code, can we not have bye-laws forbidding litter louting; bye-laws which oblige all occupants of property to keep their surrounds clean on a daily basis; and bye-laws which authorise police, police auxiliaries, street wardens and all council officers to serve notice on occupants who are not doing this simple duty? All such bye-laws should include fines of £40 for first offences, £60 for second offences and so on, and £100 for failure to pay within 30 days. Whenever our councils let contracts to cleaning companies to clean up mess in public places (eg the River Wey, the back of the Dogflud Health Centre, the two corners at Hickley's which are covered in vegetation, and the verges of the A31), which they obviously never do, then oblige the council officers to walk the course, and bring down severe penalties on the defaulting contractors. Can we not all make a new start in cleaning up filthy Farnham, and keeping it clean? R J Francis, Lynch Road, Farnham
