§ Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenportasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government to give details of the number of appeals by advertising interests dealt with during 1954 under the Control of Advertisements Regulations, 1948; how many of these appeals were dealt with at public hearings and by correspondence, respectively; how many, in each group referred, respectively, to posters, including bulletin boards but not trade signs, public information panels, and to trade signs on the premises 155W of the occupiers concerned; and how many of each separate category were rejected or allowed.
Type of Advertisement Total Number of appeals decided Number dealt with by hearing Number dealt with by correspondence (a) Dismissed Allowed Dismissed Allowed Posters … 1,163 110 38 684 331 Public Information Panels … 87 — — 29 58 Trade Signs (b) … 512 18 18 205 271 (77) (—) (—) (44) (31) TOTALS … 1,762 184 1,578 NOTES.—(a) Including cases in which the site was visited by an officer of the Department accompanied by representatives of both parties to the appeal.
(b) The figures include appeals for directional signs not on the trader's premises, as shown in brackets.