The first step in dereliction is the growth of litter, which is followed by the growth of graffiti, followed by fly-posting.
However, it must be admitted that vast areas have some increasingly tatty and uncared for parts, and fly-posting contributes a great deal to that.
The conservators cannot remove placards and fly-posting at the moment: they have no powers to do so.
Local authorities should have the same powers to tackle those who promote graffiti products as those that apply to promoting fly-posting.
But it is the case that fly-posting is perhaps one of the most sinister aspects of this question.
I want to know how fly-posting is affected by this.
If fly-posting takes place during an election, will the police be allowed to interfere with those who carry it on?
Instead, what the clause does is to give district councils a new power to remove or obliterate a particular type of nuisance, namely: "fly-posting".
