On the left, you see a receipt for breakfast with a senior executive of Decaux.
Yes, £70 for a breakfast paid for by us taxpayers does seem somewhat excessive but only the best when ex Cllr Moylan was in the chair!
But a £70 breakfast is the least of our memories.
Our real worry should be the proximity between the Council and the multi-billionaire Paris based Decaux family.
This family seems with the greatest of ease to be able to install their monstrous advertising wherever they wish in the Royal Borough. Corruption? We will never know....
Anyway, not just in this Borough but throughout the UK the worm is turning. Residents have had enough of their councils being complicit in the destruction of visual amenity.
In Wandsworth residents have started this FIGHTBACK
The Dame says good luck to them...
There is more this than meets the eye.
ReplyDeleteRBKC may take a large cut of the profit, the question has been asked about revenue streams from this blight making its way into RBKC coffers.
If you consider a map of advertising and BT Inlinks you will see areas
are being exploited and turned into ghettos. All this stuff put on
RBKC pavements, predominately covering council buildings/land etc.
Same for the Inlink roll out - the trade off - put them in the poor
parts of Chelsea to protect the rest.
Problems caused by Inlinks (BT's advertising revenue) - free
calls/wifi - perfect for selling drugs - news articles on this from
all round the country - horrendous.
Only wealth prevails and RBKC take it in any currency - we have the
desert cars, the Decaux signage, its horrible.
At least homeless people can now charge up their phone or make calls...
Deletehttp://adblockbristol.org.uk
ReplyDeleteCampaigning for a city free from corporate outdoor advertising
What a great example to follow - AdblockRBKCLondon anyone?
Adblock Bristol
ReplyDeleteAbout Us
AdBlock Bristol is working towards a city that celebrates its creativity and independence, where communities have a say in what they see in the city’s streets and other public spaces. We are opposed to billboards and other corporate outdoor advertising, preferring a visual environment which reflects the unique identity of our city, the values of local communities and the local economy.
That Cromwell road advert was just the most ridiculously over engineered and unnecessary project ever, an army of contractors over several months just to end up with a miserable few adverts.
ReplyDeleteBy the terrible dead archect. Ugly, very dated stainless steel and over bright. Monstrosity.
Delete@Thomas Tompion - will you get involved and campaign to have this trash removed?
DeleteWhat....to start a petition only to be fobbed off like the Odeon? Sorry for being pessimistic but it is reality in our borough. Can't you see the pattern everywhere? It's not by chance though they'd like you to think so.
Delete@12:02 RBKC Modus Operandi - good point reminded, thank you.
DeleteStill, there is hope. Big difference between the two examples.
@14:18 In order for a petition to be successful, one needs to think step ahead. We must learn from the past 'failing' in order to be successful this time. We need to be able to put 'something' in place that the Council cannot do the dodgy backdoor exit again. Now, what that 'something' is...IDK but I'm sure someone could come up with 'something'.
DeleteI guess the question, yet again, comes back to "How can we make the Council accountable?"
We can learn a lot from the Wandsworth FIGHTBACK link which was posted in the article above.
ReplyDeleteIs anyone interested in starting this off in RBKC? I am up for it.
ReplyDeleteWhat about join forces with www.takedowntheads.com ? They laid the foundation and I predict that it might become a London wide movement!
Delete@12:41 good plan, will you join too?
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