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14 days. The Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) Regulations 1992 says any board advertising a property for sale or to let must be removed within 14 days of the completion of the sale or granting of tenancy.


Send complaints to Southwark Councils contact centre [email protected] and their trading standards acts pretty promptly.

Tell them your address (for their records), the the address the board is outside, how long it's been there i.e. longer than 14 days, whether they say 'Let' or 'Sold' and the name of the estate agent. The contact number of the estate agent taken from the board may also quicken the process.


At the end of the day it's the law that the board shouldn't be there more than 14 days but the lots of estate agents seem to ignore that unless nudged. Or they claim to have an issue with their board erector and didn't realise it was still there.


Good luck

snorky Wrote:

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> just rip them down and if you have time to spare,

> leave them on the EA office doorsteps



Or better....walk right in on a Saturday morning and politely place it gently on the managers desk. I did this at Bushells once - Winkworth are clearly the worst for this. I had one outside for almost a year!

A couple of years ago, we acquired a "To let" sign, probably intended for a house a little futher along, when we weren't to let. I rang the EA, they didn't move it, so we adapted it to advertise the school fair, naturally covering up any mention of the EA. By some co-incidence, the following year, lots of "School Fair sponsored by XYZ EA's" appeared all over ED and Nunhead. Even the school Friends group I was in, jumped on the band wagon. I didn't have one outside my house - my personal experience of EA has been uniformly negative.

If you really get fed up of a sign:

[a] alter the words to say what you think of the EA

cut it up for fire wood

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