A-boards and chalk on pavements
There is a special dispensation for the use of A-Boards associated with elections on polling days. The terms of use are
- use only during the hours of polling – 7am-10pm
- sited off the pavement whenever possible
- sited so as to avoid any obstruction to pedestrians and
- sited so as to avoid any obstruction to access to the polling place.
A campaign at the election in May 2021 used “chalk paint” stencilled on pavements as “campaign posters” to replace A-boards. In some cases, these were posted inappropriately within the boundaries of buildings, on an entrance ramp or outside private venues.
While we cannot ban the use of chalk on for example pavements, we would ask that such marks are not used in future. In any case do not place such marks within the curtilage of any building.