OZschwitz: Corrupt Council lifts 25-year advertising ban

NORTH SYDNEY may soon reclaim its title as the advertising capital of Australia after a majority of councillors decided to scrap a 25-year policy banning advertising on public infrastructures such as bus shelters, street poles and pedestrian bridges.

The new policy, which could yield the council more than a million dollars a year, has appalled some residents, who fear their streets will be inundated with commercial billboards, banners and posters.

"The visual clutter of paid advertising, a thoroughly subjective blot on our eye line, would really be out of keeping with the essence of this place and really should stay in the 'not if we can help it' column," wrote one resident on a council-run blog about the issue.

A council report estimated commercial advertising on its 60 heritage-style bus shelters could generate up to $600,000 a year and a billboard on a council-owned pedestrian bridge over the Pacific Highway could generate as much as $300,000 a year. The 50 new multi-purpose light poles in the North Sydney central business [url]district could carry banner ads worth up to $250,000 a year.

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So now it's a tad less corrupt ... or perhaps not?

OZschwitz: Corrupt Council lifts 25-year advertising ban

OZschwitz: Corrupt Council lifts 25-year advertising ban

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