Property boards banned from seafront

If something seems to be missing along the seafront, it’s because estate agents’ advertising boards along the seafront in Hastings and St Leonards have been officially banned by the council. They always required planning permission, but judging by the frequent forest of signs signalling that virtually the whole town was up for sale, that was a mere formality. Now they have been forbidden on all properties between Grosvenor Gardens and Pelham Crescent. Apparently estate agents are happy with the change: who wants to look cheap and available, after all?

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