Another city council applies to Secretary of State to ban To Let boards

To Let boards in five key student-dominated streets near to Lincoln city centre are to be banned after a survey found that a quarter of all properties featured boards. Describing them as “eyesores”, the city’s council says it has recently undertaken several consultations with residents in the affected areas and that 85 of the 134 respondents said they favoured a total ban. The council has now applied to the Secretary of State for the Regulation 7 Direction to be removed for the streets most affected –  Monks Road, the West End, Sincil Bank, Union Road and Waterloo Street – and, if granted the powers, the council says it will ban To Let boards outright. “It’s shocking to think that some parts of the city have around 25% of the properties covered in To Let Boards, and between the years 2004 and 2016 we have seen the number of complaints grow steadily, so we are aware that there is a problem,” says City of Lincoln Council Planning Manager Kieron Manning (pictured, left). “Now we have Executive approval, we can carry out the wishes of the majority of residents and apply to have the boards removed.” Local agents aren’t happy about the…