street furniture
'A' boards - Kingston has voted to generally ban 'A' boards advertising shops/sales on its highways. We have good high level signage to shops already, but do any members have experience of providing totem pole/ remote high level signing or similar devices to shops off the beaten track, tucked away down medieval alleys or beyond pedestrian areas? Any experience gratefully received.
Contrast banding - to maintain good visual access in our streets we are considering the most effective and aesthetic ways of using street furniture - predictable locating, reflective bands for twilight & contrast bands for daylight on stainless steel furniture, avoiding glare from in-ground uplighters to trees etc. We are aware of the legislation and guidance that already exists, but what are other boroughs 'doing' about this? Apart from complying, does your borough have a special approach? Again, if you have any special programmes on this, I'd appreciate your views.
A-boards
Could anyone let me know if it is possible to require the licensing of A-boards to cut down on the numbers on our streets? If so, does this tend to work?
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Thank you both for these helpful suggestions - we are preparing a strategy and will post it on the forum Pat Whelan
Thank you very much Mark and Adam for these great ideas - maybe we have to have different approaches to different areas of Kingston - the Richmond solution would work well in the newer areas, and we maybe look at some bespoke signs close to the listed buildings. Love the idea of medieval banners. we see the City of London have incorporated great heads-up maps into their pedestals. We'll be working up options over the coming months and will share our findings with you Pat Whelan
We use lamp column mounted banners to promote secondary shopping streets. We're currently involvved in a signage and wyafinding review and will give further feedback once I have initial reports back. I think banners may work in Kingston as they have an air of the "medieval" about them which may be deemed suitable for a historic town centre like Kingston. We also use this apporach for the historic Market area which has been well received by the market traders.
We are looking at a more extensive control of A boards in Richmond town centre- but one initiative we hoping to introduce is low level signage in cast aluminium, which can be changed for individual units in the future, at the entrance to alleyways with shops in them- where there is often pressure for A boards and where the number of them is causing problems. This is on the basis of we design, shopkeepers pay- it has had an inital positive rspoonse. In Brewers Lane in richmond town centre there is already a wall mounted list of shops at both ends of the alley type street- this is at a higher level, and was provided by the shopkeepers.
