Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Harringay's Street Cabinets to Be used as Billboards?
I just picked up the following on Twitter:
Found some great #cabinets in Harringay yesterday. Will submit them for advertising consent next week #OOH #OutdoorAdvertising
The Twitter account leads to the website of a company who are apparently making a killing renting phone equipment cabinets as advertising billboards.
I have asked Haringey Council about their position this. I hope they'll be at least as strict with this company as they have apparently been with Jessica when she sought to put up a little advertising about Harringay Market.
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Permalink Reply by Birdy_Too on
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That's your opinion Alan. The cuts have been so severe (just watch The Year The Town Hall Shrank, about Stoke (my home town) City Council and what it had to cut) that LA's are shrinking and services are disappearing.
Ideologically I am with you but if this meant an old folks home or a SureStart centre staying open then it's a no brainer from my point of view. We may well be selling our soul to the devil as 'we' are already privatising hospitals and schools thanks to this awful government.
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Permalink Reply by pamish on
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Nobody knows whether these past few years are the end of life as we know it, or a blip in the onward march of capitalism. Whereas I would be delighted to see this slump used to promote a deep green agenda, it may just be temporary. Who has the vision to see it as that? That in a few years there will not be a desperate shortage of funds (in fact there isn't one now, they are just not distributed right). That there is no need to sell off everything in a panic, thus exacerbating the unequal distribution of assets as all our valuables are delivered, cheap, into the hands of the 1%? That, for example, the beautiful and purpose-built Women's Library in Tower Hamlets, created with lottery money, should not be sold by London Met Uni in their scrabbling for cash, but mothballed till the curve turns up again?
*/>end rant*
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It doesn't bother me one bit Jessica, but from their perspective, one party pays for advertising legally and one doesn't, illegally.
Someone on this site a few years ago moaned about political fly posting in the area and I see that Harringay Market is no different, both trying to bring about positive changes to the area.
Someone, again moaned about a bloke drinking a can of beer in the park and yet was found drinking wine on a summers day in Fairland Park, there's no difference.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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Response from the Council:
Cllr Canver, Haringey Cabinet Member for Environment said:
“Advertising on utilities such as phone exchange boxes is not permitted and is considered fly-posting. Advertising on these or other sites without permission will result in removal and a fine or prosecution
“Advertising on lamp post banners is permitted by application to Baymedia who are contracted by Haringey council. The approval process for advertising by this method is shared between the company and the council’s marketing team.”
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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Of course, we may all feel sympathy for the freezing camel. But . . .
The challenge is to find ways to balance the need to advertise events and activities we want to see, while not opening the floodgates.
Birdy, I was the one who objected to political posters. But my objection was to posters pasted on other people's property. It's perfectly possible to find ways for businesses, political parties, arts and cultural events etc etc to advertise. And adding to the colour and liveliness of the streetscape; not adding to what becomes visual pollution.
Partly this is a matter of taste. But I'd be really interested if anyone has any examples of places where this balance is achieved.
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Permalink Reply by paddyk on
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I have seen these used in Dublin, for maps and community info, art etc. If its done right its a good way of hiding these unsightly eyesores and useful,
If its advertising then thanks but no thanks.
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