Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Estate agent signs on buildings.
Now, I don't really mind all that much about slightly lurid shop signs (slightly reminds me of being on holiday) but trundling back down Green Lanes today, I could not help noticing how BIG the estate agents For Sale signs on the shops along Green Lanes were.
The worst offender by far was Paul Simon, closely followed by Golds. If a councillor or delegate to the Green lanes Strategy Group is reading this, please can you ask these businesses to stop ruining the look of the street.
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The worst offender by far was Paul Simon, closely followed by Golds. If a councillor or delegate to the Green lanes Strategy Group is reading this, please can you ask these businesses to stop ruining the look of the street.
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Tags for Forum Posts: Wightman Road, estate agents signs, green lanes, signs, visual character
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Permalink Reply by Liz on
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I do intend to bring this up at a residents association meeting on Thursday as we have a delegate to the GLSG there
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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Absolutely with you Liz - see my Getting it off my chest about Green Lanes signage clutter! posting from last December.
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Blimey, just looked at your 'after' photo, Hugh, you kind of don't see it until its not there, if you get my meaning. It's the estate agent signs that really annoy as often they are simply advertising the EA because the property is let/sold, anyway an entrepreneur is hardly going to screetch to a halt in his/her Bentley just because they see an enormous sign above a shop on Green Lanes so I don't think there's any justification for enormous For Sale signs either.
Those hangers from every lamp post are pretty ugly too and the council put a lot of those up so they can stop that for a start. -
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Permalink Reply by Birdy_Too on
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Surely the estate agents have an obligation to take signs down after they properties are sold or let out
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They often put a sign up after they have let a place to advertise the fact. Not sure about the rights of people to take them down again or have them removed.
Outside my old flat, Brian Thomas used to put one up outside the house next to mine (you can see it on my page in the snowy night photo) and my downstairs neighbour went out with his hammer every time and took it down again...a real battle of wills! -
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It appears that other councils have taken action against this practice. See this article from 2006
http://www.ealing.gov.uk/press_releases/2006/june/pr742.html
Note the reference to Haringey half way through the article... "Haringey borough recording the highest proportion of flyboarding (80 per cent)." -
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Liz,
That article's a brilliant find. It shows that where there's a wil...............
So what we gonna do with it? -
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Well, I'm bringing it up at LCSP...may take a few copies of the article for the good folk who do not come to the website... and requesting a formal complaint to Trading standards. If they don't take it up...a letter writing campaign via the website would be the next move perhaps. Or maybe both. Any other ideas,people?
Incidentally a search on google and the Haringey website brought up absolutely nothing on this topic in relation to council action to prevent it -
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And the statistic you uncovered, I would have thought, might be interesting for Emma of the H&CEJ.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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That is a brilliant idea. I didn't even realise that it was illegal.
Use google to search the haringey website, it is better than their serach.
Type into google "flyboarding site:haringey.gov.uk" -
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