| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Coffee Traveller Bike | |
| Posted by: | Adam Beamish | |
| Date/Time: | 18/12/19 18:02:00 |
| Not much of the article makes sense to me. Before everyone starts having a pop at LBH though, it's very likely that someone has made a formal complaint about this to the Council. Having been on the receiving end of such complaints many times, it never ceases to amaze me what people complain about. But, once they do, the Council is duty bound to investigate. Putting that to one side, there's no provisions under the advertisement regulations for a Council to demand action within 48 hours. Strictly speaking if an advert is there without the required consent it could be liable to prosecution proceedings immediately (unlike an authorised extension) but normal practice would be for the authority to request that the advert be removed or a retrospective application be submitted within 28 days. This sounds to me like an example of the consequences of ever stretched local government resources, i.e. the Highways Department trying to deal with planning enforcement matters, and causing confusion in the process. FWIW the bike is an advert, the operators effectively concede that in the article, and it doesn't benefit from deemed consent. So whatever you or I might think about it, the Council is only doing its job - so many times I've have loved to say to some complainant "are you for real ? - yes it is a breach but I'm not going to ask them to do anything to rectify it" but to do so I'd be in breach of my contract of employment. Quite how the owner comes up with the figure of £366 for the signage application I don't know - if the sign directs the public to a business that isn't visible from where the sign is located, the application fee is £132. Does need some common sense though from all concerned, one of the main reason local authority resources are so stretched is because Councils manage to tie themselves up in knots !. |