Just months ago Kirklees councillors backed a clampdown on advertising boards in Huddersfield town centre.
Now the authority’s planners will be asked to rule on plans by a national company to install new advertising boards.
Advertising company Clear Channel UK have applied for consent for two digital advertising boards – one on Market Street and another on New Street. Plans show the new boards would be digital on one side and paper on the other side.
It would update older advertising boards, but it comes after Kirklees Cabinet introduced stricter controls on advertising boards in the town centre in April.
Town centre traders were told they couldn’t leave A-boards on New Street – because they were based in the arcades off the shopping street. Licences could be bought for £105 for shops wanting an A-board 1.8m away from their shop front.
At the time Kirklees said they wanted to make the streets and highways “more accessible for people with visual impairments and mobility issues”.
The latest plans are open to public comments via Kirklees Council and will be decided by the council’s planning officers.
