{"id":3468,"date":"2011-02-17T14:15:05","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T14:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=3468"},"modified":"2011-02-21T12:27:24","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T12:27:24","slug":"coldharbour-lane-brixton-sw9-big-ugly-billboard-goes-up-is-it-legal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/coldharbour-lane-brixton-sw9-big-ugly-billboard-goes-up-is-it-legal\/","title":{"rendered":"Coldharbour Lane, Brixton SW9: big ugly billboard goes up. Is it legal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/coldharbour-lane-billboard.jpg\" alt=\"Coldharbour Lane, Brixton SW9: big ugly billboard goes up\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I always thought that planning\u00a0permission\u00a0had to be sought before companies could erect large billboards, but there certainly hasn&#8217;t been a single notice posted anywhere in the area for this monster thing on Coldharbour Lane.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/coldharbour-lane-billboard-1.jpg\" alt=\"Coldharbour Lane, Brixton SW9: big ugly billboard goes up\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Erected on what was a piece of publicly accessible grass verge (and latterly an <em>ad hoc<\/em> car parking space) the billboard looks to be a replacement for the one which formerly straddled the space between the old Texaco garage and the green area outside Southwyck House (by Moorlands Road).<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, that carbuncle had never received planning\u00a0permission\u00a0either, but lingered on for several years before\u00a0finally\u00a0being pulled down a few years back. Apart from its\u00a0unsightly\u00a0appearance, the billboard provided cover for all sorts of nefarious activity, as well as providing a handy public toilet space &#8211; right\u00a0next\u00a0to where kids play.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is it legal?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I tried to check with Lambeth&#8217;s planning department today, but after being kept on hold for ten minutes gave up. Does anyone know is this thing has got planning permission? Post a comment or send us a message if you know &#8211; or you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.net\/vbulletin\/threads\/343394-Great-big-billboard-going-up-on-Coldharbour-Lane-no-planning-permission?\" target=\"_blank\">discuss it on our boards.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If it turns out that the big ugly thing does indeed have no planning permission, than\u00a0perhaps\u00a0it might be time to\u00a0consult\u00a0this useful guide:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.com\/Action\/factory.html\" target=\"_blank\">Smashing the image factory. A Complete Manual of Billboard Subversion &amp; Destruction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related discussion<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.net\/vbulletin\/threads\/343755-Would-it-be-illegal-to-enhance-any-adverts-displayed-on-an-illegal-billboard\/\" target=\"_blank\">Would it be illegal to &#8216;enhance&#8217; any adverts displayed on an illegal billboard?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always thought that planning\u00a0permission\u00a0had to be sought before companies could erect large billboards, but there certainly hasn&#8217;t been a single notice posted anywhere in the area for this monster &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,193],"tags":[1191],"class_list":["post-3468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brixton","category-places","tag-brixton"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/coldharbour-lane-billboard.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-TW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3468"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3472,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468\/revisions\/3472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}