Mandatory insurance 413John & Lisa I know this is a little old but I asked my MP to look into it and the reply to him from the Government has just arrived. Quote "Essentially...
Pete Smith
I am curious about this. AFAIK you can pretty much paint anything you like on the side of your house or vehicle parked within view of a public highway provided that it isn't obscene. They do look very silly when they blow over though.
As a part of a campaign against a set of gratuitous supergrid pylons to run power to the SE from a bunch of proposed powerstations that post-Enron will never be built we had a local anti-pylons campaign.
Whatever you may think of the rationality of their arguement the full might of the electricity companies legal department could not stop a farmer leaving a slurry trailer with "pylons kill" in dayglo yellow on black parked next to the A19. And for a while after the pylons were built vandals adjusted it to "pylons egg". The farmer thought this funny enough to leave in place.
These days it says "slow tractors". Not that it stops boy racers piling into them at 100+.
I reckon leaving a few mangled twisted burnt out wrecks up motorway embankements and embedded in bridge parapets might improve driving standards.
Strange - most of the ones I see are the "real wood kitchens no chipboard" send us your money no questions asked (that or the local point to point). I will admit I fancy trying the "trippers and slippers" claim at a shopping centre with "I fell down the steps after being accosted at the top of them by ambulance chasing parasites".
Should bikes be registered 416be Its a fact that when a ton of metal hits a cyclist they are probably end, but that doesn't mean motorises are to blame. Many cyclists behave with total...
Incidentally what are the rules from a legal stand point for notices displayed on or about anything ranging from an unclbuttified local road (county coucil maintained) through to an A(T) clbutt D2AP (Highways Agency) ?
My recollection is that there are insurance problems if it is on the highway itself and then there are size limitations to contend with but on private land there is little that anyone can do about it. I have seen a few small adverts on A19 lamp posts but they are short lived, and I have no idea how they are dealt with.
The question mainly relates to tiny village halls and local fetes. The sort of thing where the AA signage charge of £265 (or whatever it is this year) wipes out most of the profits. And thanks to the highways agency our village has been deleted off the A19 signage. Pity that villages do not have human rights. Even the local cows have a bridge but we do not.
Regards, Martin Brown
