Comments on: Street participation http://nearfuturelaboratory.com/pasta-and-vinegar/2009/11/06/street-participation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=street-participation mind/tech bazar from outer space Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:57:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tim Stevens http://nearfuturelaboratory.com/pasta-and-vinegar/2009/11/06/street-participation/#comment-3770 Tim Stevens Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:27:28 +0000 http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2009/11/06/street-participation/#comment-3770 These signs are everywhere and have to be posted when there are planning applications open for public dispute. What I find interesting is that sometimes they can stay up for years, long after the enquiry has closed, and long after the building works have finished. I don't know if this is local councils forgetting, being lazy (surely once the display period has expired they become litter?), or whether local people are just scared of taking them down themselves. I can imagine a situation in the UK at the moment whereby a local resident removed an expired notice, only to be prosecuted for doing so, as the notices presumably remain the property of the council. There is one at the end of my road for the construction of some speed bumps (traffic slowing, 'sleeping policemen') that were finished in 2004. Maybe I should take it down? ... These signs are everywhere and have to be posted when there are planning applications open for public dispute. What I find interesting is that sometimes they can stay up for years, long after the enquiry has closed, and long after the building works have finished. I don’t know if this is local councils forgetting, being lazy (surely once the display period has expired they become litter?), or whether local people are just scared of taking them down themselves. I can imagine a situation in the UK at the moment whereby a local resident removed an expired notice, only to be prosecuted for doing so, as the notices presumably remain the property of the council.

There is one at the end of my road for the construction of some speed bumps (traffic slowing, ‘sleeping policemen’) that were finished in 2004. Maybe I should take it down? …

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