Guidance

Outdoor advertisements and signs: a guide for advertisers

This guide explains, to those wanting to display an outdoor advertisement, how the system of advertisement control works in England.

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Outdoor advertisements and signs: a guide for advertisers

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This guide aims to explain, to those wanting to display an outdoor advertisement, how the system of advertisement control works in England.

The booklet is arranged in separate sections and there are numerous illustrations which may show you how the system affects the type of advertisement you want to display.

This booklet is only a guide. It does not include every condition or limitation for every class of those advertisements which are normally permitted.

For full details see the The Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) (England) Regulations 2007 and Circular 03/07: Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) (England) Regulations 2007.

Published 18 June 2007