Enough is enough on town centre eyesores

Sep 25 2008 by Barry Gibson, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

SCRUBBED AWAY!

THEY appear, quite literally, overnight.

Garish posters and leaflets advertising concerts and club nights have turned approaches into Huddersfield into scruffy advertising corridors.

Now a local pressure group has warned: Enough is enough.

The Huddersfield Town Centre Partnership has launched a bid to try to improve the image of the town by getting rid of the flyposters pasted on empty buildings, walls and building site hoardings.

Town centre manager Cathy Burger watched as four Kirklees community rangers in blue overalls squirted and scraped the posters off buildings on Queensgate yesterday to kickstart the campaign.

She said: “The College Arms and Bar Amour, both of which closed down some time ago, are on the ring road making them very visible to visitors, but unfortunately some bars and clubs are using the building as a billboard.

“It’s not the image of Huddersfield that we want to project.”