What do you think of A-boards?

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Photo:Street furniture in Gardner Street and Sydney Street

Street furniture in Gardner Street and Sydney Street

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A necessity for traders or an obstacle to pedestrians?
By Peter Crowhurst, North Laine resident
A new Council policy

The Council has given the go ahead for a new policy on 'A-boards' which will limit the number of A-boards to one board per trader on the pavement and not allow 'A-boards', tables and chairs on pavements if they reduce the pavement width by less than 1.3 metres.

A Council scrutiny panel will now look at the whole question of pavement furniture to come up with a solution which meets the needs of both traders and pedestrians, especially those who are disabled.

The Council would like to have views from all sides

What do you think?

This page was added on 01/06/2009.

Comments/reviews:

Yes these are a definite obstruction, can spoil your enjoyment of strolling along and window shoping as you are constantly having to check you're not about to bump into them. I think one per trader is still too many.

By Sharon Carter
On 22/06/2009

Have you seen the Brunswick and Regency campaign against them? http://www.theargus.co.uk/communitypages/brunswick_and_adelaide/5071022.Blitz_on_rogue_A_boards_along_Western_Road/

By Claire
On 21/03/2010

I will look at, and probably back the Brunswick and Regency campaign. In general, the Council restrictions announced some time ago were overdue; but so far the whole process seems to have moved at snail's pace, though one or two individual traders have made improvements. Was this, I wonder, after discussions with Council officers, or just evidence of an individual desire to make things better, and go with the mood of the times, so to speak. Anyway, so far Sydney St looks just the same to me; perhaps some people like it that way -- do I hear the dread word "vibrant"?

By Bruce Smith
On 08/09/2010

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