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Planning applications for digital billboards are proliferating across the UK. Communities across the country, including Newquay, Bournemouth and Sheffield, have been in touch with Adfree Cities to ask for advice. In this blog we summarise how our local group Adblock Bristol blocked 51 of 52 new ‘Street Hub’ billboards, and how you can too. …Continue reading How Bristol blocked 50 new billboards – and how you can too
We’re delighted that another double-sided digital advertising screen or ‘BT Street Hub’ has been refused permission by Bristol Council. Big thanks to everyone who lodged objections, supported our Big Box protest tour or came to our digital activism sessions last year, and to councillors who’ve been standing up to new advertising in Bristol….Continue reading Success! Another advertising screen refused in Bristol
Digital ad screens have sadly become a familiar sight on our streets, and you might soon see a whole lot more thanks to BT. Without changes to advertising policies, corporations and their ads will continue to walk all over local democracy. What is happening? BT’s Street Hubs have unfortunately become a familiar site in many…Continue reading The hubs are coming! How BT invaded public space