0 equipment such as lights and road signs, positioned at the side of a road for use by the public --
It seeks to make those who wish to put down street furniture give the local authority 28 days' notice.
There is much less "street furniture", as it is called, which is so disfiguring and so costly.
The growth of traffic restrictions and, consequently, street furniture is one of the most striking things in our cities.
This has involved ricochets from street furniture, kerbs, door frames and riot debris as well as inside buildings.
Those posters are stuck on telephone kiosks and any piece of street furniture which does not move.
Our streets may be cluttered more in 1981 than ever before with what can be called extraneous street furniture.
That leads to hugely disproportionate costs in street cleaning, refuse collection, ground and street furniture maintenance and, particularly, policing.
The fact is that street furniture should be improved, and there are encouraging signs that the public takes this matter very seriously.
