• Where can I not advertise?

No person shall erect or display any of the following advertising signs or advertisements or cause or permit any such advertising sign or advertisement to be erected or displayed:

• Painted on a boundary wall, bridges, any water tower, reservoir or silo and all non-locality bound painted advertisements;
• Any advertising sign, advertisement, flyposter or poster pasted, painted, placed on or against or attached to or otherwise supported by any power line standard, power masts, transformer box, telegraph pole, road traffic sign or signal (any lamp pole which has a road traffic sign or signal attached to it), traffic circle, traffic island or median (except for the display of gantries,  litterbins, and Category Two [2] and Three [3] Posters), wall, column or post or pillar of a veranda or balcony, fencing, electricity box or sub-stations, tree, electrical transmission pylon or bridge or any other municipal infrastructure where specific provision has not been made;
• With an overhang onto a roadway or shoulder, if not on a bridge or a gantry;
• Which will obscure a road traffic sign or which may be mistaken for or cause confusion with or interfere with the functioning of a road traffic sign;
• Any sign which may obstruct pedestrian traffic;
• Which will obstruct any window or opening provided for the ventilation of a building or which obstructs any stairway or doorway of other means of exit from a building or which will prevent the movement of persons from one part of a roof to another part thereof;
• Any animated or flashing sign where the frequency or the animation’s or flashes or other intermittent alterations of which disturbs the residents or occupants of any building or is a source of nuisance to the public;
• Larger than 81m² or higher than 12,5m, if free-standing;
• In electronic format larger than 18m²;
• Where the illumination disturbs the residents or occupants of any building or is a source of nuisance to the public;
• Which swings and is not rigidly and permanently fixed;
• On land not in accordance with the relevant zoning or approved consent use as per applicable Town-planning Scheme;
• Pasted otherwise than on an advertising structure legally erected for the purpose of accommodating such an advertisement;
• Which, in the opinion of the EMM, is suggestive of anything indecent or may prejudice the public morals;
• Which relates to a business which is conducted on an erf or land which has not been re-zoned for that specific purpose;
• Which relates to cigarettes or other tobacco products on Council property;
• On refuse removal sites / landfill sites;
• On or against water towers and reservoir owned by Council;
• Painted or erected on traffic circles, islands, medians or speedhumps;
• Banners and flags that advertise sales promotions or commercial products or events, or banners suspended across a road, affixed to a bridge spanning a road, placed on or against or attached to or otherwise supported by any transformer box, telegraph pole, tree, road traffic sign, electric light standard or other sign or object;
• Any flag of a permanent nature or an inflatable sign in the road reserve;
• Mounted on a trailer, bicycle or vehicle, which is stationery and positioned with the sole purpose of advertising;
• For any estate agency containing any other words except the words ‘For Sale’, ‘To Let’, ‘Sold’ or ‘On Show’ and the name, logo, address and telephone number of the selling agent or letting agent;
• Other than an exempted sign, for which neither a permit nor approval has been obtained;
• Any sign which does not comply with the requirements of a specific type of sign as prescribed in this Policy.