NEW BOOK ON CONTROL OF OUTDOOR ADVERTISING AND GRAFFITI LAUNCHED

Outdoor advertising performs a vital role in the promotion of new goods and services, and can brighten up depressed urban areas. But in the wrong place, it can spoil towns and cities and, perhaps especially, ruin attractive countryside. However, the control of advertising is an area of the law that has become highly technical, not least because of the numerous decisions of the courts in the last few years. Further, there are now new regulations - the Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) Regulations 2007 - in force in England; and the primary legislation has been amended, with new enforcement procedures and higher penalties.

In addition, a new code now operates to help local authorities to outlaw fly-posting and graffiti - although it remains to be seen how successful it will be in practice.

All these issues will be addressed in the latest book by Charles Mynors, The Control of Outdoor Advertising and Graffiti, to be published by Shaw & Sons early in March 2009. The book is a comprehensive guide to the law and practice as it relates to the whole of the United Kingdom. It explores all aspects of controlling signs, advertisements, billboards, fly-posting and graffiti; and includes the text of all the relevant legislation (including the special rules applying in London). It will be indispensable for all who work in this area.

Charles is an experienced practitioner at the Planning Bar, and prolific author. He has written the standard textbooks on Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas (fourth edition, 2006) and on Trees, Forests and Hedgerows (2002; second edition expected 2010). Before coming to the Bar, he worked as a planning officer for a central London borough; and he is a Fellow of the RTPI and the RICS and a Member of the IHBC.