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Leicester begins banning To Let boards outside student properties
Leicester is the latest city to go live with a scheme that requires letting agents to apply for planning permission to erect boards in areas heavily dominated by students. The council yesterday revealed that it is to start implementing new powers granted to it by the Department of Housing, Communities and Local Government (DHCLG) to ban To Let boards in half a dozen areas in and around the University of Leicester and De Montford University. Under the Regulation 7 Direction order landlords or agents must now apply for planning consent to put up signs advertising a property and, if they don’t, will be fined up to £2,500. The areas affected are the Windermere, Hazel, Clarendon Park (pictured, above), Greenhill, West End, Ashleigh Road and West End conservation parts of the city. The ban follows a decade-long attempt to control boards in these areas through a voluntary code of practice but, the council says, only a ‘handful’ of landlords and agents have complied with this. To let boards The council was moved to apply for a Regulation 7 Direction order after locals in these areas complained of an almost constant flurry of boards outside properties. “They are intrusive and often misleading,…
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Manchester considers city-wide To Let board ban
Manchester is considering a city-wide ban on To Let boards if a voluntary scheme does not work out, its local authority has revealed. City Council chiefs say To Let boards in Manchester are an ‘eyesore’ and accuse many agents of putting up signs ‘all year round’ and making some areas of the city less desirable. Councillors are to prepare plans to introduce a voluntary pilot scheme that will ask letting agents to ‘remove signs’ although the council has not clarified whether this means not using signs at all, or sticking to existing bye-laws about the removal of boards after a property has been let. But either way, if this does not work, the council says it will request a Regulation 7 direction as set out in the Town and Country Planning Regulations, from the Secretary of State to ban To Let boards across Manchester. The pilot scheme will target the mainly students areas of the city including Fallowfield and Withington, as well as areas with the highest proportion of private rented properties. “The high concentration of these signs in some areas of the city creates an unsightly blot on the landscape and can be a real eyesore for local residents,”…
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