Textual Amendments
F1Regulations repealed (E.) (6.4.2007) by The Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) (England) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/783), regs. 1(1), 32(1) (with reg. 32(2)-(4))
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 3 Pt. I in force at 6.4.1992, see reg. 1
(1) Subject to paragraph (12) below, no such advertisement is permitted within a conservation area, an area of outstanding natural beauty, a National Park or the Broads.
(2) In the case of a shop, no such advertisement may be displayed except on a wall containing a shop window.
(3) Not more than one such advertisement parallel to a wall and one projecting at right angles from such a wall is permitted, and in the case of any projecting advertisement—
(a)no surface may be greater than 0.75 square metre in area;
(b)the advertisement may not project more than 1 metre from the wall or two-thirds of the width of any footway or pavement below, whichever is the less;
(c)it may not be more than 1 metre high; and
(d)it may not project over any carriageway.
[F2(4) Illumination may be—
(a)by halo illumination, or
(b)so long as no part of the background of the advertisement is illuminated, by illumination of each character or symbol of the advertisement from within.]
(5) No such advertisement may include any intermittent light source, moving feature, exposed cold cathode tubing, [F3or animation].
(6) [F4Where the method of illumination is that described in paragraph (4)(b), the luminance] of any such advertisement may not exceed the limits specified in paragraph 2 of Part II of this Schedule.
(7) In the case of any such advertisement consisting of a built-up box containing the light source, the distance between—
(a)the face of the advertisement and any wall parallel to which it is displayed, at the point where it is affixed, or
(b)the 2 faces of an advertisement projecting from a wall,
may not exceed 0.25 metre.
(8) The lowest part of any such advertisement shall be at least 2.5 metres above ground level.
(9) No surface of any advertisement may exceed one-sixth of the frontage on which it is displayed, measured up to a height of 4.6 metres from ground level or 0.2 of the frontage measured to the top of the advertisement, whichever is the less.
(10) No character or symbol on the advertisement may be more than 0.75 metre in height.
(11) No part of the advertisement may be higher above ground level than 4.6 metres or the bottom level of any first floor window in the wall on which the advertisement is displayed, whichever is the lower.
(12) Paragraph (1) above does not preclude the continued display of an advertisement being displayed at the date of designation of the relevant area until the expiry of 5 years from that date.]
Textual Amendments
F2Words in Sch. 3 Pt. 1 Class 4 substituted (1.10.1994) by The Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) (Amendment) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/2351), regs. 1(1), 5(b)
F3Words in Sch. 3 Pt. 1 Class 4 substituted (1.10.1994) by The Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) (Amendment) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/2351), regs. 1(1), 5(c)
F4Words in Sch. 3 Pt. 1 Class 4 substituted (1.10.1994) by The Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) (Amendment) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/2351), regs. 1(1), 5(d)