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Mrs M

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Does anyone know the laws on putting up posters advertising local events. I think it is that providing the posters are taken down after and no damage is caused that this is okay. Is this right?
 
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#chaplife
i know this is for kensington and chelsea, but i would imagine the laws are similar all over:

The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea said:
Fly-posting is the posting of stickers, posters and other advertising without the consent of the owner of the property. Street furniture in particular is afflicted.

Fly-posting is an offence under section 224(3) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 and the Highways Act 1980 making it a criminal offence to display an advertisement in contravention of regulations. Advertisers can be fined up to £2,500 on conviction for this offence and in the case of a continuing offence £250 per day after a conviction.

The Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003 allows Police Community Support Officers and those persons accredited under the community safety scheme to issue penalty notices to the individual who physically puts the fly-poster up (rather than the advertised business).

Graffiti and fly-posters attached to your property are criminal damage and should be reported to the police.
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linky poos..
 
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cookie_monster

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i know in sheffield that flyposting and flyering is pretty regulated.

there are now only a few flyering companies as they all have to have licenses to flyer.

can you enlist the help of local shops, neighbours etc and get them to put posters in windows so you can avoid some of the issues?


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Mrs M

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It's not 'fly posting' as such, it's more like what the political parties do for voting day. It's only to be tied onto trees, lamposts etc and can easily be removed. Not stuck down with wallpaper paste to junction boxes etc.
 
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#chaplife
Mrs M said:
It's not 'fly posting' as such, it's more like what the political parties do for voting day. It's only to be tied onto trees, lamposts etc and can easily be removed. Not stuck down with wallpaper paste to junction boxes etc.
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i was just posting what i found.. i realise you have no malicious intent, but the above sources would seem to suggest that, according to the law:

Fly-posting is the posting of stickers, posters and other advertising without the consent of the owner of the property. Street furniture in particular is afflicted.
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so that would include the things you mentioned.. as you say, political parties get away with it, so there must be some kind of regulations that do allow it!
 
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I think it's still all a bit of a grey area, Sony records got into trouble with Camden council over it not that long ago. If you do decide to then use masking tape for minimum mess, but I think if you don't want to risk a fine you're probably better off sticking with the shop window & notice boards where people have given you permission.
 
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Mrs M

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It was a councillor that I asked who said that providing there was no damage caused and that they were removed after then there shouldn't be a problem. I decided to phone the borough council, they did not know who to speak to so said it will probably be highways, whom I called on 276500 and kept getting health and safety, i asked him if i had dialled correctly and he said no, the number was entirely different. I tried 276500 and got the same man who said that I must be doing something wrong so i dialled again and got the same man who said 'I really don't know what you're doing'. So I found another number to call and they said it was borough council I needed, who said it was county council i needed but after having a few words, he suggested i needed a planning officer and would need to make an appointment which would not be until next week some time. So I will make my signs put them up with tie wraps and take them down with no damage caused. Maybe I will use small posts in the ground.
 
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Mrs M said:
It was a councillor that I asked who said that providing there was no damage caused and that they were removed after then there shouldn't be a problem. I decided to phone the borough council, they did not know who to speak to so said it will probably be highways, whom I called on 276500 and kept getting health and safety, i asked him if i had dialled correctly and he said no, the number was entirely different. I tried 276500 and got the same man who said that I must be doing something wrong so i dialled again and got the same man who said 'I really don't know what you're doing'. So I found another number to call and they said it was borough council I needed, who said it was county council i needed but after having a few words, he suggested i needed a planning officer and would need to make an appointment which would not be until next week some time.
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jesus wept, that sounds worse than trying to get through to virgin media lol..
 
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Some very clever advertising has been going on in Dublin to circumvent the law. They attach a stencil to a footpath area and then pressure-wash the dirt from the concrete paving to leave the image/message as a contrasting shade from the uncleaned area. As there is no additional material left behind it is difficult to see what they could be prosecuted for - 'selective cleaning', perhaps.
 
Andreas Rex

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Gramaisc said:
Some very clever advertising has been going on in Dublin to circumvent the law. They attach a stencil to a footpath area and then pressure-wash the dirt from the concrete paving to leave the image/message as a contrasting shade from the uncleaned area. As there is no additional material left behind it is difficult to see what they could be prosecuted for - 'selective cleaning', perhaps.
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That's a great idea!
 
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#chaplife
Gramaisc said:
Some very clever advertising has been going on in Dublin to circumvent the law. They attach a stencil to a footpath area and then pressure-wash the dirt from the concrete paving to leave the image/message as a contrasting shade from the uncleaned area. As there is no additional material left behind it is difficult to see what they could be prosecuted for - 'selective cleaning', perhaps.
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that really is a stroke of genius :clap:
 
Gramaisc

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Only really works in a pedestrian environment - if you did it to buildings so that drivers could see it on the vertical surfaces, then people might get more agitated about it. There was talk of prosecutions over it, but I've never heard of it being taken further and it's difficult to see what the crime is - just that they haven't cleaned the rest of the place??

There are various signs up all over the place, all of the time, I would steer clear of the jobsworths and just do it - not that I am conspiring to contravene the Town and Country Planning Act 1980....
 
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Gramaisc said:
Some very clever advertising has been going on in Dublin to circumvent the law. They attach a stencil to a footpath area and then pressure-wash the dirt from the concrete paving to leave the image/message as a contrasting shade from the uncleaned area. As there is no additional material left behind it is difficult to see what they could be prosecuted for - 'selective cleaning', perhaps.

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That's a great idea!
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that really is a stroke of genius :clap:
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"Clean graffiti" has now appeared in Nottingham - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-36120297 - IKEA have been 'warned' about it, possibly because prosecution for cleaning a bit of the footpath might be a little iffy?

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