§ 79. Mr. Kitsonasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs to bring forward the inquiry date to consider applications for advertising signs on the Great North Road at Catterick in view of the fact that he has already held an inquiry into this matter on 8th March last year.
§ Mr. H. Brooke:I offered to deal with these applications by sending one of my
Type of Advertisement Total number of appeals decided Number dealt with by hearing Number dealt with by correspondence (a) Dismissed Allowed Dismissed Allowed Posters 854 1 2 708 143 Public information panels 50 — 1 31 18 Trade signs (b) 645 10 2 441 192 (93) (1) (—) (79) (13) TOTALS 1,549 16 1,533 NOTES: (a) In all these cases the site was visited by an officer of the Department; in some cases he was accompanied by representatives of both parties to the appeal. (b) The figures in brackets relate to appeals for direction signs not on the trader's premises.