One rule for all leads to centre’s signs climbdown
Wednesday 11th August 2010, 1:00PM BST.
These promotional A-boards outside the Information Centre were removed yesterday after planners intervened. (Picture by Peter Frankland, 1008761)
GUERNSEY’S tourist Information Centre has removed all promotional signs from outside its entrance after angry retailers complained that a ban on A-boards should apply to everyone.
Shop owners in St Peter Port yesterday said they felt discriminated against for not being allowed signs outside their businesses because the Information Centre at North Plantation was displaying six.
St Peter Port Constables and Police Superintendent Ian Morellec wrote a letter to retailers last year saying they could no longer obstruct the public highways with their boards.
Yesterday, however, St Peter Port senior constable Jenny Tasker said she stood by the ban and her view that the Information Centre was a different kind of case.
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“Yesterday, however, St Peter Port senior constable Jenny Tasker said she stood by the ban and her view that the Information Centre was a different kind of case.”
How is it different, Jen? Oh ’cause it’s a States building?
Get a grip.
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This whole saga is pathetic and ridiculous.
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Jenny Tasker should be ashamed. But I doubt she is.
This is law imposition for the sake of it, and it is ridiculous to stop shops from using A Boards just as it is Tourist Information.
I wonder what the Constable’s puppet was thinking when he was told to write that letter?
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the trouble is a some traders will fail to use common sense or think of others in favour of their own profits at all costs. in the arcade and other places that are often full of people there is often little space to move in. many of our population such as those visually impaired or with mobility problems, or even people with kid’s buggies, will have difficulty getting around these things. no great danger, but they are a pain in the bum to many negotiating aroung town and most signs just do not need to be there as they are very close to the shops they advertise. if you are a shop in town you surely never need a sign in town saying you are a shop in town! this is a question of thinking of others but because increasingly our society does not do so, we will need the by-laws and the waste of our authorities’ time.
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If the A-Boards are coming down and the boards like the ones outside the Braye Road pub are illegal.
Does that mean that all the advertising boards/banners outside the Channel Island Co-Operative Society of which Mrs. Tasker is a paid director of the said organisation, will have to take all theirs down.
Whats fair for one is fair for all.
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This is all getting a tad silly now.
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So if the LAW applied is a road traffic law that prohibits hidering the free passage on a public highway (i think that’s the wording used in the GEP) then these A boards are a minor infringement, what about the road closure signs put up all over the place, metal A board signs with scribbled writing often placed on pavements, in the roadway and even on corners, these signs are dangerous and perhaps more aligned with the “proper” application of the law that has been used heavy handedly on a few business signs.
What next….9:00pm curfew, cars only for the ruling elite, oh sorry…just had a flashback to 1940!
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I have been watching the sign debate for a while but I had to laugh when driving home yesterday. These “banners” have appeared on the street lights about the digital switch over. I assume that the “states” would have given permission for these which would mean that any business will also be able to?
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With all the controversy over signage, can someone tell me who (I suspect a States department) has put the hideous, bright pink large banner up at the bottom of Colborne Road advising that the ‘digital switchover’ is coming…..it’s huge and totally hideous (and hardly essential, by any definition!)
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i wonder who has paid for all of the banners on lampposts around the island and paid to fit them.
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rob.g
I think i know the answer to that one! I have spoken to the people behind this through my line of work. I asked them the same question and apparently this is all funded through the UK.
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