Agenda item

8.1

The Director of Development Services submitted a report informing Members of a breach of advertising regulations in relation to the unauthorised display of illuminated shop fascia and projecting sign at the front of 253 Fulwood Road.

8.2

The report stated that a written complaint was received in September 2011, regarding the erection of a sign at the property of 253 Fulwood Road. A site visit was made by an officer and it was noticed that an internally and externally illuminated shop fascia sign and an internally illuminated projecting sign had been erected without advertisement consent.

8.3

A letter was sent to the owner and occupier requesting that the signs should either be removed and replaced with signs that met the advertisement regulations or alternatively that an advertisement application for a more appropriate signage be submitted. The owner and occupier were also invited to discuss an alternative more acceptable proposal for the signage at this location but had not taken up this offer. To date no application had been submitted.

8.4

Along with the letter a notice under section 330 of the Town and Country Planning Act, 1990 was served on the occupier on 6 March 2012 and on the owner on 11 July 2012 requesting further information regarding the ownership of the property. To date, the notices had not been returned.

8.5

RESOLVED: That authority be given to the Director of Development Services or Head of Planning to take all necessary steps, including enforcement action and the institution of legal proceedings, if necessary, to secure the removal of the unauthorised signs at 253 Fulwood Road.