Advertising and fly posting

The Act:

• allows councils to ban the display of many types of portable advertisements within a designated area, on grounds of public safety or amenity. Anyone contravening the ban can be fined up to £2,500
  
  
• sets higher fines for repeat offenders. Third offences of fly posting or ‘shroud advertisement’ offences (which involve adverts hung from buildings or scaffolding) will attract fines of up to £20,000, instead of a current maximum of £2,500
  
  
• enables councils to force owners or occupiers to take action to stop people persistently posting up unauthorised adverts on their buildings. Councils will also have the power to carry out any necessary work, and to recoup their costs from the owner or occupier (these provisions will only come into force once a Code of Practice has been developed and agreed by London Councils, likely to be by June 2008)
  
  
• allows council officers to seize items where they suspect a fly posting offence has been committed