Ten councils have banned For Sale and To Let boards altogether in certain areas, and an eleventh is applying for a ban.
A twelfth, Canterbury, had its application for a ban turned down but is thinking of re-applying, while Reading and Brighton are planning to ban letting boards in student areas.
Councils must have central government permission to ban boards, and prove that they are detrimental.
The question is, how many more local authorities will go down this route?
The Telegraph has this report on the “forests of estate agent boards”:
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This is the result of agents flooding streets with their boards when they are not actually selling a property there, it happens quite a bit in Bolton. When I go on line to check which property they are selling there is no evidence of one on any portals!!! Boards should not be erected on common ground only on the land the property sits on and that is for sale and with the owners permission. Local councils should fine agents flouting this rule and the number of boards will soon drop, leaving the law abiding agents to continue good estate agency practice.
I'm not the slightest bit surprised. There is mass flouting of the legislation. In our neck of the woods there are groups of boards thrown up on grass verges, on roadsides a quarter of a mile or so from the properties for sale, put up in neighbour's fields and lining county highways. We are just waiting for the relevant district council to take a similar tack which will be a pity for the agents who could do with the publicity and don't flout the rules.
Actually I'm not sure that I would mind too much – as long as it applied to everyone in my whole area 100% of the time.
Level playing field and all that.