Wednesday, November 19, 2008
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FLYPOSTING GRADING

11.1

Introduction
11.1.1 Flyposting is defined as any printed material and associated remains informally or illegally fixed to any structure.
11.1.2 Flyposting includes any size of material from small stickers up to large posters – often advertising popular music recordings, concerts and other events.
11.1.3 Flyposting excludes formally managed and approved advertising hoardings and valid, legally placed signs and notices. It also excludes:
  • business cards and handbills placed under vehicle windscreen wipers and vehicle door handles;
  • illegal displays on movable objects such as advertising A boards, billboards on movable bases on farmland and other open land, and on 'barrage balloons' etc.
11.1.4 Flyposting should be recorded if it is visible from relevant land and highways (in other words, from the survey transect), on the surface of any building, wall, fence or other structure or erection, where that surface is readily visible from a place on that land or highway to which the public have access.

11.2

Definitions of Flyposting Grades
  GRADE A - The local environment is completely free from flyposting.
  GRADE B - Some flyposting is present, but it is minor in nature and it is likely that many people would not notice its presence. This can include tie-bands or other forms of fastening which remain after a notice has been removed.
  GRADE C - Flyposting is present in the local environment to the extent that it is likely to be clearly visible to people using the area, and visible at a distance from at least one end of a 50m transect.
  GRADE D - Flyposting is extensive throughout much of the local environment and is clearly visible and obtrusive to people passing through the street scene, and visible from any point on a 50m transect.

11.3

Assigning Intermediate Grades
11.3.1 Three Intermediate Grades will also be used (B+, between Grade A and Grade B; B –, between Grade B and Grade C; and C –, between Grade C and Grade D).
11.3.2 The intermediate grades are not separately defined – they fall ‘in between’ the four grades defined in COPL&R, when the quality standard on a transect neither conforms to the definition of an upper ‘whole’ grade nor that of the ‘whole’ grade below it.
11.3.3 This could happen where some parts of a transect could be graded as Grade B, but other parts are Grade C. The clearest example would be where there is a marked difference in standard between one side of a transect and the other - for example, if one side is Grade B and the other if Grade C, then a Grade B – is assigned.
11.3.4 The B – Grade is particularly important in the context of the NI 195 survey, because it shows that standards are close to being satisfactory. That is why, from 1st April 2008 onwards, it will be given only half the weight of Grades C, C – and D in calculating an authority’s NI 195 score for flyposting.