Here is my article in the latest issue of the Countryman. Roadside adverts are creeping back as local authority planning departments are cut – and CPRE hates them!
I drove from London to Oakham in Rutland at the weekend. It is not the most pleasant drive, but it was made considerably worse by sproutings of ugly roadside advertisements.
Trying to stop billboards and trailers cluttering up the countryside and obscuring views from roads and railways has been a CPRE staple throughout our history. CPRE’s founders wanted people to have a clear sense of when they were in the countryside and when they were in the town, and they dreaded the prospect of roadsides becoming advertising corridors, as they saw in the USA. Continue reading ‘Cluttering up the countryside with roadside adverts’