A council has won government approval to order a five-year ban on estate or letting agent boards being displayed for more than two weeks after a property is sold or rented.
Waltham Forest council in east London has won the backing of Eric Pickles' Department of Communities and Local Government for the ban to be enforced in areas of Leyton and Walthamstow.
This is just the latest in a series of measures to deter or ban boards taken by local council and reported by EAT in recent weeks.
A similar ban by Waltham Forest council, issued for one year to cover the 2012 Olympics, had expired. During that year the council issued 826 fixed penalty notices to try to force compliance but an authority spokesman claims many larger agents built the cost of the fine into their charges.
Some agents say they were simply unaware of the council policy until they had allegedly contravened it and were subsequently fined.
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