Roadside clutter
Roadside clutter near A2, Bridge, Canterbury. Photo: © Ady Kerry.
We are campaigning to urge local highway authorities (your County Council, Unitary Authority or Metropolitan Borough) to avoid urbanising the countryside through excessive use of road signs, markings and poorly designed street furniture. To campaign against clutter is not to campaign against road safety but to argue for more sensitive measures and better design.
Our Clutter Challenge to local authorities
Our five point Clutter Challenge urges authorities to take out unnecessary clutter, and improve the way in which they manage traffic so that they are more in keeping with the surrounding area.
1. Develop a policy in the Local Transport Plan to protect and enhance countryside character, coupled with a bid for additional funding in the plan to help implement it.
2. Work with landscape professionals, interested groups and the wider public to develop a traffic management manual and design guide.
3. Undertake a Clutter Audit across the Authority’s area.
4. Undertake a clutter free pilot scheme to manage traffic in the countryside during the first two years of the life of the Local Transport Plan.
5. Write to CPRE informing them of your authorities commitment to the Clutter Challenge and issue a news release to help publicise this in the local media.
