# Charity events exempt from crackdown on illegal roadside adverts

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2006/01/07/charity-events-exempt-crackdown-illegal-roadside-adverts/
- Published: 2006-01-07T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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Local planning authorities are being encouraged to clamp down on illegal roadside
adverts that risk distracting drivers and which blight the countryside. Adverts 
that promote local charitable events, however, will not require local planning authority
consent. 
Housing and Planning Minister Yvette Cooper has announced new measures
to crack down on the nuisance posed by illegal roadside adverts such as those on
trailers in fields to drivers.

Local planning authorities are being encouraged to take action against offenders
and a new national database of organisations prosecuted for advertising illegally
by motorways or selling illegal advertising will be created this year.

Advertisements which may be displayed without having to apply to the local planning
authority for express consent include those for a local event being held for charitable
purposes, and temporary advertisements to be displayed publicising a forthcoming
event.

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