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Does anyone use temporary correx boards/temporary Information Placards (displayed on existing street furniture) to display road safety messages?
We’re getting conflicting advice. Some say that displaying these boards is covered under schedule 3 of the town and country planning regulations – which allows for certain classes of advertisement to be displayed with ‘deemed consent’. Others say that as the boards would display messages for road users, and would be displayed on part of the highway, that they cannot be used as are not authorised in TSRGD.
If you use them in your authority I’d be interested to hear how you approach the issue. If you don’t use them I’d also be interested to hear why! Thank you in advance.
Dear Rebecca,
I’m just wondering if you mean Schedule 3 of the Advertisements Regulations:
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/advertisements
I would be very careful about this. My local authority used lamp post sleeves (presumably manufactured from or by Correx). The message was about “making space” for various forms of “sustainable” transport. As lamp posts are at the rear of the footway, it should, perhaps, be no surprise that we now have an epidemic of illegal cycling, causing great discomfort and actual danger to our elderly pedestrians, especially.
I have suggested that the adverts ought to be replaced by reminders of Rule 64 of the Highway Code …
Perhaps safer to stick with the TSRGD, or find some better way of getting your message across – bear in mind the danger of distracting drivers, or of simply having your message misinterpreted, or of leading others to think that fly-posting is now legal.
Kind regards,
Andrew
Hi Rebecca – luckily for me our Highways team giving the permission was in adjacent room when first set out on this job 14yrs ago, along with traffic control who have traffic/car park info signs etc. They’ve allowed me to use the 3 month temp signage, which I have in many campaigns – A2 signs, Al channel backed, 8.5ft above surface on our standard lamp columns. I’ve done basic media evaluation for campaigns and have found them OK – best seen by peds or cyclists. I’m moving to composite panels as more durable – I tend to re-use some of campaigns – Focus/Look/Listen for peds crossing – door opening in front bike – and some others. Correx embrittles here after a couple of 3 month sessions and if you don’t have AL channel backing collapses after while.
I’ve had OK for some TSRGD campaign wording to be used on our VMS/car park signs – at one stage looked like DfT would be more flexible in allowable useage but this wasn’t clarified….
If you have digital bus stop advertising in your area it’s great to get in on contract time – assuming council is placing with commercial – to ensure you can use part time for campaigns etc. We had this for good while with Clearhannel – I gave it over to Public Health for Covid and haven’t grabbed back yet. They have great awareness from public – especially pedestrians but in dark works well for drivers too, at stops.
Anyway – good luck – much more effective than many options we have for campaign messaging – mainly because only we can do there and you can put up appropriate message to locality.Re Andrew Fraser’s comment about Highway Code Rule 64 – Do not cycle on the pavement.
Let’s not forget the statement from 1999 and 2014:https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2014/jan/20/police-cycling-pavements
“The minister with responsibility for cycling, Robert Goodwill, has reiterated guidance on pavement cycling. It is against the law to cycle on the pavement and back in 1999 this was made a fixed penalty offence. The original guidance was issued by Paul Boateng the minister responsible at the time. He said:
“”The introduction of the fixed penalty is not aimed at responsible cyclists who sometimes feel obliged to use the pavement out of fear of the traffic, and who show consideration to other pavement users.
Chief police officers, who are responsible for enforcement, acknowledge that many cyclists, particularly children and young people, are afraid to cycle on the road. Sensitivity and careful use of police discretion is required.” ”
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