The report, Hot Food Takeaways: Planning a route to healthier communities published by food campaign charity Sustain, says councils should find ways to incentivise healthier food outlets to open near schools as part of a renewed focus on improving the long-term health of residents.
It calls on them to show that hot food takeaway policies contribute to a "much more comprehensive approach to healthy communities" in their local areas.
Examples of this would include supporting businesses to provide healthy options and considering reducing business rates to entice new enterprises to sell healthier food in vacant shops.
It also calls on the government to consider banning the sale of takeaways to under-16s during weekdays up to 6pm.
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