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Advertising our success without illegal billboards

15 March 2007

Countryside campaigners CPRE strongly welcome today’s announcement by Planning Minister Yvette Cooper of a package of new measures to crack down on illegal advertising alongside England’s roads.

CPRE is particularly keen to support the new database of offenders, and to feed information to local councils in the coming months. We ask any member of the public who sees any advertising displays along motorways in the countryside to contact us as soon as they can safely do so.

Paul Miner, CPRE’s Planning Campaigner, said:

‘We’re delighted that the Government has responded to our campaigning since 2005 and brought in these measures. Tatty advertising displays on trailers have no place in England’s countryside – they are ugly and dangerous. We don’t want it, the Government doesn’t want it, motorists don’t want it and many local councils don’t want it.

‘For too long planning enforcement has been neglected. Over 900 billboards came to be plastered over England’s landscape in recent years [5], with the express aim of getting the attention of motorists travelling at high speed. We hope that this will be a salutary reminder to Government and all local councils that planning rules need to be enforced.’



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