On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 15:58:42 +0100, "James Wilkinson"
wrote:

On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 15:51:32 +0100, Andrew wrote:
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And are illegal, so off to the tip they go. either that or chopped
into bits and chucked into the offending garden.

If they were illegal, they wouldn't be so prevalent.

They are and they aren't ....

"Leaving ‘things’ (including advertising boards) on the highway

According to the Highways Act 1980 ( Section 148 and Section 149) it
is an offence if ‘a person deposits any thing whatsoever on a highway
to the interruption of any user of the highway without lawful
authority or excuse or if the thing “constitutes a nuisance” ‘ or
constitutes a “danger to users of the highway (including a danger
caused by obstructing the view)” then they they can remove it without
delay and recover the cost of removal from the owner. This can be used
by councils (sometimes) to removed advertising boards."

https://pedestrianliberation.org/the-law-2/

Cheers, T i m