The last two weeks have seen further comment about Berwick Borough Council’s focus on what it calls illegal signs advertising local businesses. This follows its actions last year in spray painting them. Apparently the Council, not content with vandalising some signs and opposing planning permission for others, has now gone back on producing guidance for businesses on what would be allowable.
I have a limited experience of this: I received a curt letter last year telling me to take down some innocuous signs on minor roads indicating the location of a local business. Neither the business, the signs nor the location had anything to do with me so I replied as such but also wondered why they would want to focus on this issue when there were so many other problems in the planning and regeneration area. They didn’t reply.
This area relies on tourism and on small scale businesses. The Council is there to support its residents and businesses. It seems to have forgotten that.
It reminds me of the Lib Dem Council I lived in London: it too focused on its own interests to the extent that even its leader noted “too many people feel that the council does things to them”. Sounds like Berwick.
I have a limited experience of this: I received a curt letter last year telling me to take down some innocuous signs on minor roads indicating the location of a local business. Neither the business, the signs nor the location had anything to do with me so I replied as such but also wondered why they would want to focus on this issue when there were so many other problems in the planning and regeneration area. They didn’t reply.
This area relies on tourism and on small scale businesses. The Council is there to support its residents and businesses. It seems to have forgotten that.
It reminds me of the Lib Dem Council I lived in London: it too focused on its own interests to the extent that even its leader noted “too many people feel that the council does things to them”. Sounds like Berwick.
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