Last week, it was announced by the Department of the Environment that there would be a crack down on illegal signage. The recession has been a difficulty for many businesses and one of the unwelcome consequences has been an epidemic in illegal signs.
Driving up the country, one sees builders regularly promoted on trailers, usually placed on a farmer’s land, with current offers on houses that are hard to sell. Sometimes the advertisements are on land adjacent to the building sites.
Cars are sold on the side of the road with mobile numbers on them and these are sometimes left on the hard shoulders or breakdown areas. Certainly, in the UK, this would not be tolerated and items, be they signs or cars, would be seized by the authorities and a hefty bill would ensue.
Sometimes, these cars, which can often be seen in the County Waterford area, may not have full title as there could be a bank or credit union loan attached to the vehicle and the owner, who has fallen on hard times, may not be in a position to make the payments. So, as the old saying goes, let the buyer beware.
Other traders sell fruit and vegetables on highways, sometimes in dangerous places on hard shoulders, and they seem to do enough trade to keep them there. We hear much from the Road Safety Authority about other matters yet these vehicles and trade-stands are on the public highway without permission.
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For pete’s sake have people nothing better to do than complaining about ‘illegal’ signage? I suppose the quangocrats have to be seeing to be busy.
Kieran, if a vehicle is taxed and insured, nobody should have the authority to interfere with said vehicle. Except if it is parked in a dangerous place. Do you want the Government to put more of their dictatorship into practice. People are taking their own lives up and down the country and the Government and yourself are worried about illegal signage and cars for sale on roads. Now I am not saying that cars left in a dangerous position on our roads should be ignored but what I am saying is that the Government are concerning themselves with all the wrong things, people are dying for far less and the Govt. should be thrown out of the Dail onto the streets, they simply are not performing at their job and like anybody else who does not perform in their job, THEY SHOULD BE SACKED! So stop going on about matters that are just not relevant, we should be trying to do something about the people taking their own lives because they can’t meet their mortgage etc…
The Tourist sector will bring less revenue, as the countryside is littered with 20/40 foot containers & scrap Lorry’s.
The city’s are full with ugly & sometimes abandoned looking Trailers.
Advertisement is intrusive.
Proper billboards should be available and affordable for local business.
There is a little nixer for the council.
A idea is if the the council would allow we say 2 sq meter for some sort of art sponsored and dedicated,to the business.
This could blend in or even enrich the surroundings making the desperate looking and total out of proportion sized Banner a think of the ugly past.
greetings