Question: Councillor M. Baker
“To ask the Chief Executive to confirm the legal dimensions for an estate agents sales board?”
Reply:
The PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS 2001 (as amended) and Class 9 of Schedule 2 – Part 2 – Advertising provides for the conditions and limitations relating to advertising for the sale or letting of property as follows:
Column 1 – Description of Development
Advertisements relating to the sale or letting of any structure or other land (not being an advertisement structure) on which they are exhibited.
Column 2 – Conditions & Limitations
advertisement shall not exceed:
(a) in the case of an advertisement related to the sale or letting of a house, 0.6 square metres.
(b) in the case of an advertisement relating to the sale or letting of any other structure or land, 1.2 square metres.
2. Not more than 1 such advertisement shall be exhibited on the structure or other land.
3. No such advertisements shall be exhibited, and no advertisement structure erected for the purpose of exhibiting such advertisement shall remain on the structure or land, for more than 7 days after the sale or letting to which the advertisement relates.