Post office threatened with £1,200 fine for ‘illegal’ signs as crackdown launched in Leicester street

A Leicester post office has been threatened with a £1,200 fine for putting up signs outside its premises amid a crackdown on “illegal” notices. A spokesperson for the post office, in Clarendon Park, said staff were astonished when Leicester City Council wardens told them to tear down 12 signs from bollards along Queens Road, or face a £100 fine for each one.

The spokesperson for the branch told LeicestershireLive: “The warden rang and asked us to remove them. They said we were illegally flyposting, which is puzzling because why would the post office supply us with something which was illegal?”

The council’s Clean Streets team is cracking down on what it is calling “illegal flyposting” along the popular shopping street.

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“They told us we need to take those [signs] off [the bollards] because otherwise there’s a £100 fine, and we had 12 out there on the bollards, [so] that’s £1,200 every day that they’re there,” the branch spokesperson said.

A Leicester City Council spokesperson told LeicestershireLive: “Flyposting is a criminal act that can result in the issue of a fine of £150 (reduced to £100 if paid within 14 days) for each offence”.

They described flyposters as people who “usually advertise events with posters, stickers or bills that are put up on buildings or street furniture without the permission of the property owner”.

They added: “People can report flyposting directly to the city council and our city wardens will investigate. So far this year, we’ve issued 116 fines for flyposting across the city.”

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