Bristol City Council crack down on fly posting in Ashley, Cotham and City Centre Areas.

Release Date:  03-Dec-2009

Bristol City Council environmental service staff are cracking down on illegal fly-posting in the Ashley, Cotham and City Centre areas in a special campaign, which starts today.

“There is a huge amount of illegal fly-posting, which is blighting these areas and we want to get the message across that bill posting is illegal,” said Cllr Gary Hopkins, Executive Member for Environment and Community Safety.

The Council remove thousands of posters each year. Staff check areas every week but this month extra resources are being targeted at Ashley, Cotham and the City Centre to try to deter and to catch culprits.

“Not only is this illegal advertisement, the posters cause criminal damage and cost public money to remove from public and private property” said Cllr Hopkins.

Over 95% of illegally posted flyers advertise events. The environmental health staff have been working with nightclub owners and promoters to stop posters advertising events being put up illegally. However, certain local nightclub promoters continue to illegally post their advertisement to public and private properties. Some of the people they employ to post their flyers do not know it is illegal. Anyone caught putting up a poster can be fined up to £2,500.

Council staff are contacting all the main clubs to ask for their help in stopping this nuisance.
“We are also developing legal fly-posting sites in the city so that events can be advertised in a co-coordinated way which will not ruin the appearance of the areas” said Aled Williams, streetscene enforcement manager.

Author:  Vicky O'Loughlin, Media and PR Officer, 0117 9223463

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