
Cllr Julie Cattell has reported the ghastly billboard covering up our Community Elms to the Planning Enforcement Team.
“Planning officers are actively looking into it,’ Julie said. ‘Such a hoarding would generally need advertisement consent. To date, no application has been submitted.
‘Where an advert does not have the right consent we will consider taking enforcement action.
‘We’re checking ownership of that piece of land. If an advert has been planted on council land without consent we could remove it without invoking planning rules – if that’s decided to be the correct course of action.’
Directional Media, who are selling the ad space, refused to tell us who owns the board, but they will be required to tell the Council when served with an enforcement notice.
Meanwhile Cllr Leo Littman has passed on this message of support from Ogden Nash 😉
I think that I shall never see
a billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
I’ll never see a tree at all.
It’s called Song of the Open Road. Drivers stuck in the traffic jams leading to the bridge may appreciate the irony, with the billboard right in their faces.
The Argus has run the story too.