Anti Flyposting Conference by Liverpool City of Culture
David Apple | 27.11.2004 16:33 | Liverpool
A SCHEME in Liverpool aimed at stopping flyposting is to be shown to major cities throughout the country.
A NATIONAL conference which will look at how Liverpool is tackling fly-posting - including examining its designated poster scheme - is to be held in the city next week.
Under the designated poster scheme, several city centre sites have been identified where posters can be legally displayed.
Full details in attached release.
25 November 2004
Poster Power in National Picture
A SCHEME in Liverpool aimed at stopping flyposting is to be shown to major cities throughout the country.
Representatives from the Core Cities -including Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham and Newcastle -as well as the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Department of the Environment will be in Liverpool on Monday 29 November for a conference on 'Cleaner Neighbourhoods'. There will also be an update on changes to current flyposting legislation.
During the conference delegates will go on a City Centre walkabout focusing on the 'Designated Poster Site' scheme which is designed to promote events in a more responsible manner. It is operated by Liverpool City Council and its partner, City Centre Posters (CCP)Ltd.
Authorised poster sites have been set up at locations which have been identified by the city council. The sites - which have planning consent -are maintained and managed by City Centre Posters who display the posters. To avoid abuse of the sites,all posters must be channelled via CCP for display.
At present there are 18 City Centre sites in operation and several more being developed. It is intended to extend the scheme throughout the city
Despite the introduction of authorised sites there are still examples of unauthorised fly-posting and during the past year the City Council has bought more than 20 successful prosecutions. The Council and its street cleansing partners, Enterprise-Liverpool, spend approximately £300,000 per year to remove flyposting and graffiti.
Particular problems have been caused in recent months by a Merseyside wide campaign by a local band which has seen hundreds of posters pasted on everything from bus stops to flyovers. This has not just cost the city financially it also inconvenient to road users and pedestrians when roads and pathways are closed to allow the safe removal of the posters.
Councillor Marilyn Fielding, Executive Member for Neighbourhood Services, said: "With 2008 fast approaching the city is determined to become a lot cleaner, greener and safer for all who live, work and visit by sending out the message that we will not tolerate anti-social behaviour like fly-posting.
"Fly-posting is not only unsightly and costly to remove but can also be dangerous as some fly-posters put their posters up against safety railings and other areas which obscure drivers and pedestrian views.
"With our designated site scheme there is absolutely no excuse for this sort of activity."
ENDS
Further information from Tom Farrell on 0151 225 5509 (07711 164611).
For the latest news from Liverpool, European Capital of Culture 2008, visit www.liverpool.gov.uk or www.liverpoolculture.com
Under the designated poster scheme, several city centre sites have been identified where posters can be legally displayed.
Full details in attached release.
25 November 2004
Poster Power in National Picture
A SCHEME in Liverpool aimed at stopping flyposting is to be shown to major cities throughout the country.
Representatives from the Core Cities -including Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham and Newcastle -as well as the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Department of the Environment will be in Liverpool on Monday 29 November for a conference on 'Cleaner Neighbourhoods'. There will also be an update on changes to current flyposting legislation.
During the conference delegates will go on a City Centre walkabout focusing on the 'Designated Poster Site' scheme which is designed to promote events in a more responsible manner. It is operated by Liverpool City Council and its partner, City Centre Posters (CCP)Ltd.
Authorised poster sites have been set up at locations which have been identified by the city council. The sites - which have planning consent -are maintained and managed by City Centre Posters who display the posters. To avoid abuse of the sites,all posters must be channelled via CCP for display.
At present there are 18 City Centre sites in operation and several more being developed. It is intended to extend the scheme throughout the city
Despite the introduction of authorised sites there are still examples of unauthorised fly-posting and during the past year the City Council has bought more than 20 successful prosecutions. The Council and its street cleansing partners, Enterprise-Liverpool, spend approximately £300,000 per year to remove flyposting and graffiti.
Particular problems have been caused in recent months by a Merseyside wide campaign by a local band which has seen hundreds of posters pasted on everything from bus stops to flyovers. This has not just cost the city financially it also inconvenient to road users and pedestrians when roads and pathways are closed to allow the safe removal of the posters.
Councillor Marilyn Fielding, Executive Member for Neighbourhood Services, said: "With 2008 fast approaching the city is determined to become a lot cleaner, greener and safer for all who live, work and visit by sending out the message that we will not tolerate anti-social behaviour like fly-posting.
"Fly-posting is not only unsightly and costly to remove but can also be dangerous as some fly-posters put their posters up against safety railings and other areas which obscure drivers and pedestrian views.
"With our designated site scheme there is absolutely no excuse for this sort of activity."
ENDS
Further information from Tom Farrell on 0151 225 5509 (07711 164611).
For the latest news from Liverpool, European Capital of Culture 2008, visit www.liverpool.gov.uk or www.liverpoolculture.com
David Apple
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Anti Flyposting Conference
27.11.2004 18:48
1) Firstly haven't these people got anything better to do? Surely there are more important issues than a few posters.
2) What kind of censorship will there be and what will the effect be on healthy democracy (not that we have it much and that might be a reason for displaying posters for political events)?
3) Won't these new authorities be taking all sorts of details of the submitters of the posters (name?, organisation?, address?).
Brian B
Control and containment...
28.11.2004 17:37
Propaganda = Public Relations = Advertising = Mind Control...
> Just a few questions.
> 1) Firstly haven't these people got anything better to do? Surely there are more
> important issues than a few posters.
Well unfortunately they don’t have anything better -in mind- to do, the Liberal-Democrat council like to silence dissenting voices in our city, they’re now using commercial companies to carry out arms length ‘fascist’ type politics that they themselves would face severe political attack for. There’s been a 44% increase in homelessness as a direct result of Liberal-Democrat council housing policy here in Liverpool accelerated by this pointless Kulture of Kapital title which itself has further aided the social engineering programme in Liverpool and further increased poverty. British capitalism doesn’t pretend to alleviate poverty these days it now covers it up or moves it on..
> 2) What kind of censorship will there be and what will the effect be on healthy
> democracy (not that we have it much and that might be a reason for displaying
> posters for political events)?
The censorship comes down to who has power and money. Until the majority in this city who’ve given up voting in since 1998 get out and vote for a party representing the majority with a progressive social policy we’re going to see commercialism taking away our public rights and our public services.
I don’t have a problem with fly posting, it’s usually done with common sense isn’t it. How else would I know that the Wizards of Twiddly are doing a gig here in Liverpool in December.
> 3) Won't these new authorities be taking all sorts of details of the submitters of the
> posters (name?, organisation?, address?).
Oh and I doubt the Stop The War Coalition, RESPECT, SLP, SA, SWP, SP, UPS or Liverpool based bands will even bother with this token gesture by the council. After all it’s run by a commercially obsessed council in alliance with a commercial company namely City Centre Posters (CCP)Ltd, out to make a profit, how many up and coming bands will be able to afford their prices, very, very few. It’s about “control and containment” and here in Liverpool we’ve almost been completely ‘controlled and contained’ haven’t we?
It is also grandstanding by the Liberal-Democrat and a continuation of its gesture politics, and as we become less and less free thinking people and more herded ‘sheeple’ we’ll lose evermore rights. Liverpool City Centre will be fully sterilised before 2008 as it becomes ever more soulless and our city becomes ever more undemocratically run. It’s also been posted here on to Liverpool Indymedia to give a coded warning to us all that the city council ‘vil not stand for ziss’.
This is planning ahead for when our city centre is no longer public space, ie not ‘ours’. In future we won’t be able to freely give out leaflets in the city centre ARE YOU CONCERNED? We won’t be allowed to sell alternative newspapers ARE YOU CONCERNED? We won’t be allowed to set up stalls ARE YOU CONCERNED? We won’t be allowed to collect petitions ARE YOU CONCERNED? You’ll only be allowed to with prior and written permission of the city centre manager’s office. So we’ll be ordered outside the perimeter of the gated city centre and that’s what’s in store for us political campaigners ARE YOU CONCERNED? I’ve experienced it in Darlington up in County Durham, a security guard comes outside the doors of the mall and tells you where you have to move to, down the exact line on the pavement.
I’ve also experienced being arrested by Transport Police and ordered off a train just for giving out leaflets before my journey started and thus missing my train, with a warning that if I give out more leaflets I’ll be charged. So folks that’s already the limits of this called democracy and freedom of speech in Britain, go test it out and you’ll soon discover that it doesn’t exist for the majority of it. I've had police harrassment a number of times for giving out leaflets peacefully and quietly.
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