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Old Spice
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Re: Trade signboards « Reply #10 Posted: 26 November 2011 at 02:29 PM »
Very true,I had a phone call years ago from the conservation team threatening me with all sorts of action because I was painting the shop door without permission.The fact I was painting it the same colour seemd to make no difference.In the finish I told them to go away.
Because of the same 'team' sticking their oar in,I had to pay to have my satellite dish put up at the back of the property and route all the cables all the way through the building.Mustn't spoil the appearance of the conservation area.Next door there are three dishes all nearly touching one another put up after the aggro I had and been they've there a couple of years at least.
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Re: Trade signboards « Reply #11 Posted: 26 November 2011 at 02:47 PM »
You have to have planning permission for advertising signs but I think you are OK as long as the sign is on the property of the business that is being advertised. When I worked at the holiday village near Beccles Road we put a small sign saying "Shop" with an arrow pointing in the direction of our site shop. It was a nice sign about 2 feet high and a foot square and was placed near where the holiday cruisers came into moor up near the thatched boathouse. The council told us to take it down as we hadn't got planning permission. We said it was helpful to holiday-makers who wouldn't know where the nearest shop was - it wouldn't do us any harm either. The council sent round a planning officer who was on temporary loan from London, he told us that we would have to apply for planning permission for our sign but, we could put a sign on the gable end of one of our holiday bungalows which was in clear view from that spot. So, to make a long story longer, the 2-foot sign got binned and was replaced with a 12 foot sign which was perfectly legal. Personally, we preferred the smaller sign.
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Re: Trade signboards « Reply #12 Posted: 26 November 2011 at 02:57 PM »
Quote from: Old Spice on 25 August 2011 at 08:03 AM
The sign is still there projecting out from the building.
It makes a total mockery of the so called conservation area status of this road which only seems to apply to certain peoples buildings.
I think that like far too much of what goes on in Lowestoft its not so much what you know as who.
I wonder how long any such sign I put up would last.

As you feel so strongly on issues like this, especially in the so called conservation area where you live, why don't you take photos of every breach you find & post them onto your shop windows where they can be read by any passer by from the street?  And put comments there too, like the comments you post to this site? 
Or compile a dossier of photos & facts & sent it to the Journal to go under a big headline - 'How can this be allowed?'
Or stand for Andrew Draper's seat on WDC.  Not make exuses, just do it  Just think, if you did that (& won) you could control the balance of power!
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Old Spice
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Re: Trade signboards « Reply #13 Posted: 26 November 2011 at 06:26 PM »
I'm too busy and too selfish to run for any sort of office.I'm learning too that if you kick up a fuss then all sorts of decisions go against you,and that the vast majority of people might tell you they'll be behind you but fail to tell you it will be a very long distance behind when push comes to shove.
The whole idea of making this a conservation area was a farce in the first place but the Lowestoft old pals act seems to guarantee that most aren't affected by the lunacy of it.
Putting pictures in the Journal,my shop window or anywhere else wont make it any different.
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Re: Trade signboards « Reply #14 Posted: 26 November 2011 at 06:29 PM »
What did the conservation team say when you reported the sat dishes being put up next door?
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Re: Trade signboards « Reply #15 Posted: 26 November 2011 at 08:29 PM »
where is this conservation area
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Re: Trade signboards « Reply #16 Posted: 26 November 2011 at 08:30 PM »
Waveney Rd
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Re: Trade signboards « Reply #17 Posted: 26 November 2011 at 08:42 PM »
ohhhhhhhhhh i see.what is it that makes it conservation area
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Old Spice
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Re: Trade signboards « Reply #18 Posted: 28 November 2011 at 02:55 PM »
Quote from: JustStu on 26 November 2011 at 06:29 PM
What did the conservation team say when you reported the sat dishes being put up next door?
As I didn't speak to them about the dishes,nothing.
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Old Spice
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Re: Trade signboards « Reply #19 Posted: 01 December 2011 at 01:25 PM »
The sign board outside the old Hamiltons is a ruddy nuisance when the winds blowing,I though obstructing the pavement was an offence but its there permanently chained to a lamp post.
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