Huge billboard goes up on Coldharbour Lane without planning permission and car wash shenanigans

[teuchter]

Looks like galvanised steel sheet to me.

I could use some galvanised steel sheet.

 

[editor]

Looks like galvanised steel sheet to me.

I could use some galvanised steel sheet.

Feel free to pop over tonight and help yourself.

That seems to be the way things are done around here.

 

[editor]

It's obviously kosher or the cops would've been stopped it I'd have thought.

Well, they did stop them last night.

 

[editor]

Could it be that the council have finally got their act together and made the owners take it down?

At 10pm, with just one bloke doing the work?

 

[Frumious B.]

If it's the owner or his staff doing the work they might prefer not to do it in the heat of the day.

 

[Manter]

wonder if, by starting to take it down, they have just complicated any enforcement action? You know how if you can show a court you've started to try and comply they have to give you more time?

 

[skyscraper101]

Well, they did stop them last night.

But they were allowed to carry on after they have a poke about no?

 

[editor]

But they were allowed to carry on after they have a poke about no?

Nope. They scuttled off home straight after and haven't been back since.

 

[editor]

If it's the owner or his staff doing the work they might prefer not to do it in the heat of the day.

Given the rate he was working at and the fact that there was only one of them, I'd say it would have taken him till about 5 or 6 am to finish, at least.

Much as I want to see the back of the thing, it's a residential area and folks would have started complaining seeing as he was making a right racket.

 

[skyscraper101]

Nope. They scuttled off home straight after and haven't been back since.

But if the police just let them go they must've convinced them that they weren't damaging someone elses property. Seems odd that they'd just remove a couple of panels and then disappear though I agree.

 

[editor]

But if the police just let them go they must've convinced them that they weren't damaging someone elses property. Seems odd that they'd just remove a couple of panels and then disappear though I agree.

Seeing as even the council have trouble working out who owns that land/billboard and have been powerless to do anything about its illegal existence, perhaps it was the same story for the cops?

 

[editor]

Timber! There goes the shitty sign.

 

[editor]

So there may be big holes left in the dodgy, half-dismantled billboard after the late night cowboy operation failed, but some enterprising local entrepreneur has used the hole to wedge in a flier.

 

[editor]

It's all go today! Considering the methodical way this thing was put up, and they way these two guys are banging away at the billboard in a bit of a random fashion, I'd say these guys haven't done it before.

They haven't put up any safety barriers in front of the barrier, so there's a pretty good chance a passer by may get hit when they bang a panel off.

Still, if it gets rid of the eyesore....

 

[Crispy]

Or if he slips and falls and gores himself on the fence!

 

[skyscraper101]

Dude leaning with his back to the car appears to be a lookout.

Are they using a shopping trolley for their materials?

 

[Manter]

I have a really unhealthy obsession with this billboard

 

[editor]

They've stopped to have a little think about what they're doing.

Sure beats the TV tonight.

 

[leanderman]

I have a really unhealthy obsession with this billboard

This thread is where it's at.

 

[editor]

They're still thinking about it. They're fully kitted out for the job though: one small ladder, and two hammers. And a screwdriver. Oh, and a shopping trolley.
No safety gear needed.

 

[Manter]

there's a lot of junk and rubble there- is it theirs too?

 

[editor]

there's a lot of junk and rubble there- is it theirs too?

They've been using that area as a dumping ground for rubble for months. Normally it's piled really high.

 

[editor]

Looks like just knocking out those two panels was all they could manage for the day.

 

[skyscraper101]

The pace of change where this billboard is concerned is infuriatingly slow.

 

[Manter]

Looks like just knocking out those two panels was all they could manage for the day.

Just shows a lack of commitment if you ask me

 

[editor]

The pace of change where this billboard is concerned is infuriatingly slow.

It reminds me a bit of the nearby Part Worn Res saga:

More: http://www.urban75.org/brixton/features/tyres.html

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I couldn't get through to the planning department (10 mins on hold was enough), but I've posted up a piece that will hopefully get some attention.

http://www.urban75.org/blog/coldharbour-lane-brixton-sw9-big-ugly-billboard-goes-up-is-it-legal/

When you said 'huge', I thought you meant something like this:

That sign goes against all city ordinances, but the land it's situated on.... is owned by an aboriginal band. And they said ok.

 

[editor]

When you said 'huge', I thought you meant something like this:

It's still pretty huge for a residential street.

 

[skyscraper101]

They've recently declared all those large digital LED billboards illegal in Los Angeles. I don't really know what the problem is with them. The ones round by my old place in Shepherds Bush were well cool and much more futuristic looking than the old paper stylee ones. Probably more environmentally friendly too.

 

[pseudonarcissus]

I have a really unhealthy obsession with this billboard

I was wondering if I could get it to aligh with the illegal immigrant hand yourself in poster, and the German nazi war criminal hand yourself in poster thread for a juxtaposition thread treat