Flyposting and the community

[Green Goose]

Had a walk through Dulwich Village on the way to the post office this morning and found that someone had blitzed the place with adverts for a "Garage Sale". There was about 15 posters along a distance of about 300m and they were attached to trees, lamposts and bus shelters.

Surprisingly, the one place without a poster was the community notice board outside St Barnabas Parish Hall!

I take a dim view of flyposting and feel it should be not be tolerated as it creates a negative impression and degrades the community, leading on to other problems like littering and grafitti.

I'd be interested to learn how others feel about it.

[Villager]

This is Southwark's take on it http://www.southwark.gov.uk/YourServices/environment/streetcleaning/flyposting.html but it's a pity that Southwark contributes in its own way to making the environment untidy by not removing all the out of date planning notices it attaches to lamposts. They put them in plastic bags now which fill up with rain water after a few weeks. Very unsightly.

[snorky]

Bollocks the the sanitised private estate world of Dulwich Village - they can look after their own manor. I shed no tears for any erosion in their environment.

But

Southwark have been very proactive in pulling down fly posters- even one with a community bnefiot, eg boot sales etc - in ED itself

[HonaloochieB]

If the poster takes them down after the event then what's the harm?

[snorky]

garage saley typs usually do clean up after them

Lost cat owners do not - they still think that felix is trapped in a shed somewhere & leave their notices up, despite the ominous presence of a furry tabby pancake in the next street.

Does anyone actually read one of these notices and then rush home to check their shed ?

I didnt think so.

[PeckhamRose]

Oi, stop tarring everyone with the same bruch. I check the garage when I see nearby lost cat posters and I did take all the posters down I put up when my cat went missing.

As for Southwark notices, once again they are being hypocritical - it's a bit like the BBC who DO show adverts, but for their own shows. Southwark notices often do stay up beyond the reply-by date, and so some of us tear them down for them. We really should be more proactive and do things ourselves and stop whinging. ;)

[SeanMacGabhann]

I'll start comparing BBC adverts to commercial channels when BBC interrup programmes several times to show them.. until then they are promo material outside shows and I don't mind it as much

Flyposting generally - it doesn't bother me too much at present. Not even that scary man using Courier typeface and his end of civilisation ones... And I agree with PR - if you are walking past one that is out of date just chuck it in a bin

[Only me!]

Is fly-posting any more unsightly then the clapped out red vans dotted around the postcode,

that don't seem to be moved on, or ticketed?

Judging from the holes in the bodywork I'd be very surprised if they are road worthy, if they run at all.

[HonaloochieB]

Only me! Wrote:

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> Is fly-posting any more unsightly then the clapped

> out red vans dotted around the postcode,

> that don't seem to be moved on, or ticketed?

> Judging from the holes in the bodywork I'd be very

> surprised if they are road worthy, if they run at

> all.

Sorry to go OT but actually it's only very recently that I've realised they are not all the same van.

There's one that's parked in some flats in Coldhearbour lane in Brixton, that was what suspicioned me to the truth.

I've never seen one in motion and I suspect they are in fact installations and not for hire at all.

[tomdhu]

Very satisfying !

[SeanMacGabhann]

Many many people have gone through the same process.. Just recently I had a heated argument with someone who wouldn't have it that there was more than one

They do get used tho' although I haven't seen a positive review yet

[lenk]

HonaloochieB Wrote:

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> Only me! Wrote:

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> -----

> > Is fly-posting any more unsightly then the

> clapped

> > out red vans dotted around the postcode,

> > that don't seem to be moved on, or ticketed?

> > Judging from the holes in the bodywork I'd be

> very

> > surprised if they are road worthy, if they run

> at

> > all.

>

> Sorry to go OT but actually it's only very

> recently that I've realised they are not all the

> same van.

> There's one that's parked in some flats in

> Coldhearbour lane in Brixton, that was what

> suspicioned me to the truth.

> I've never seen one in motion and I suspect they

> are in fact installations and not for hire at all.

I've seen them being driven around. There's one down by Camberwell Green as well.

Seeing as they aren't actually parked illegally I can't see why they would be moved on.

[Green Goose]

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> >

> Many many people have gone through the same

> process.. Just recently I had a heated argument

> with someone who wouldn't have it that there was

> more than one

>

It's very much on topic as the red vans are effectively flyposters on wheels. The person responsible has at least 5 vans. He was exposed in http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1050948/Exposed-The-man-menace-rusty-red-vans-blighting-suburbia-ads.html

Southwark can't do anything about it as the vans are taxed and MOT'd. He only ever mioves them to get the MOT once a year.

[Nero]

Green Goose,

I, too, was fed up of those yellow and white A4 pages sheathed in plastic and that tell the public about planned developments in the area. I wrote to the man whose name often appears on the bottom of these pages and was told that he could understand my frustration that 'something would be done'. Sadly, it hasn't, so I encourage you to pull them down but only after the three week consultation period they mention has expired. Or you could send them to the person whose name appears on the sheet, with a covering letter explaining why you are doing it.

[lenk]

Green Goose Wrote:

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> SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > >

> > Many many people have gone through the same

> > process.. Just recently I had a heated argument

> > with someone who wouldn't have it that there

> was

> > more than one

> >

> It's very much on topic as the red vans are

> effectively flyposters on wheels. The person

> responsible has at least 5 vans. He was exposed in

> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1050948/Ex

> posed-The-man-menace-rusty-red-vans-blighting-subu

> rbia-ads.html

>

> Southwark can't do anything about it as the vans

> are taxed and MOT'd. He only ever mioves them to

> get the MOT once a year.

Please don't use Daily Mail articles to make a point on here : (

[minder]

A lot of community church halls etc. don't want to know when asked to put up a poster for something like this.

Anyway, as said on another thread, that's how I got my lost cat back through flyposting.