Hounslow Council’s planners advise, “agents’ boards will be a breach of the advertisement regulations if not placed on the property to which they relate. If they are on the highway, then the highway authority can remove them and it is normally the highway authority that would enforce in such cases.”
Offending Thorgills, Dexters, Chase Buchanan and Anderson Knight boards at Osterley
First raised with Hounslow Council’s busy Planning Enforcement Team early June 2016, I later found out that the common but prohibited practice of estate agents placing advertising on the Great West Road, Osterley Station subway railings was actually a matter for Transport for London.
Following correspondence, heard from TfL yesterday that estate agents Thorgills, Dexters, Chase Buchanan and Anderson Knight will be written to and given seven days notice to remove these boards. Should they fail to comply, TfL will do it and seek to recover any expenses incurred. A copy of TfL’s communication can be found here.
Unless on the A4, A30 or A406 which are Transport for London’s (report via tfl.gov.uk/contact), our highway authority is Hounslow Highways to whom similar breaches can be reported by visiting http://www.hounslowhighways.org
It’s not just flytips that rankle.
Happy to follow up if problems not resolved.
TL 21.7.2016
