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 On Sat, 20 Sep 2025 23:34:25 +0100, Norman Wells  wrote: 
  
 >On 20/09/2025 21:06, Mark Goodge wrote: 
  
 >> That's not true; even temporary things can require planning permission, 
 >> depending on what they are. Advertising, in particular, is one which does. 
 >> There's no general exemption for temporary adverts in The Town and Country 
 >> Planning (Control of Advertisements) (England) Regulations 2007. The basic 
 >> wording is quite explicit: 
 > 
 >Indeed it is.  It is restricted, as its name suggests, to 
 >'advertisements'.  So, to invoke that, you need to establish that what 
 >was projected in Windsor was actually an 'advertisement'.  Can you? 
 > 
 >Is any news broadcast showing the same images an 'advertisement'.  If 
 >not, what's the legal difference you think exists? 
  
 News broadcasts are typically displayed within premises, so they are 
 excluded as they are not in public - in this context, it's the display which 
 needs consent, not the source. 
  
 >Incidentally, I note that the above Regulations do not define the term 
 >'advertisement', so it falls to be be interpreted according to its 
 >ordinary English-language meaning, ie as found in dictionaries, which 
 >I'm sure you will find helpful. 
  
 An advertisement is, as the dictionaries say, an announcement of something. 
  
 But, anyway, as you would have seen had you bothered to actually read the 
 Regulations, the Regulations merely apply the legislation set out in The 
 Town and Country Planning Act 1990. Which does include the following 
 definition: 
  
   "advertisement" means any word, letter, model, sign, placard, board, 
   notice, awning, blind, device or representation, whether illuminated or 
   not, in the nature of, and employed wholly or partly for the purposes of, 
   advertisement, announcement or direction, and (without prejudice to the 
   previous provisions of this definition) includes any hoarding or similar 
   structure used [or designed], or adapted for use [and anything else 
   principally used, or designed or adapted principally for use,], for the 
   display of advertisements, and references to the display of advertisements 
   shall be construed accordingly; 
  
 The three key words in there are "advertisement, announcement or direction". 
 All of these are covered by the section on advertisements in The Town and 
 Country Planning Act 1990, and hence are also included in the regulations 
 set out by The Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) 
 (England) Regulations 2007. 
  
 Mark 
  
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