A polite request not to Flypost on the Mepal bus shelters
S.224(3) of the 1990 Planning Act makes it an offence for any person to display an advertisement in contravention of the Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) Regulations 1992 (the Advertisements Regulations). This provision applies to all types of unauthorised advertisement and both East Cambridgeshire District Council and Cambridge County Council have reminded Parish Councils that we have a responsibility to make sure that residents are made aware that the display of such unauthorised advertisements is a criminal offence. These unauthorised advertisements also have a harmful visual impact and generate litter. The use of tapes and adhesives to attach posters has a detrimental effect on surfaces and results in additional resource to remove and clean the adhesives residue.
Under s.224(4) a person shall be deemed to display an advertisement if they are:
- The owner or occupier of the land on which the advertisement is displayed; or
- The advertisement gives publicity to his goods, trade, business or other concerns.
A person shall not be guilty of an offence if they can prove that the advertisement was displayed without their knowledge or consent and S.225(1) allows local authorities to remove or obliterate any placard or poster displayed.
We would respectfully ask that no posters be fixed to either of the two bus shelters
We do appreciate that people want to advertise events and the Parish Council have agreed to promote community events on the Parish Council website if they are sent in and we are still offering free advertising to local businesses in the quarterly Mepal Matters Newsletter. There is also a dedicated advertisers FaceBook Group that was set up by the Community called The Mepal Advertiser.