KSAMC begins removing illegally erected signs across Corporate Area

 

With the circular saws, drills and crowbars in hand, a team headed by chairman of the Kingston and St. Andrew Municipal Corporation, Andrew Swaby, on Friday commenced the process of removing illegally erected signs across the Corporate Area. 

 

The corporation undertook a drive to have stakeholders have their signs regularised before last Wednesday's deadline. 

 

Personnel from the KSAMC could be seen carting away entire signs and billboards they say did not have the requisite permits to be erected across the municipality. 

 

Mayor Swaby said the enforcement action will continue as the authorities target unauthorised signage and urge property owners and businesses to comply with permitting rules to avoid further removals. 

 

"We are taking down signs. Signs, once they are publicly displayed, whether they are on private property or in plazas or on the roadside, once they have not been applied for and approved by the KSAMC, we will be taking them down. We have gone to Mountain View Avenue and we have taken down the Jetour sign because it was refused and we had told them that some months ago. 

 

"We have gone to Lady Musgrave Road where there were signs actually on the sidewalk and we have taken that down. We have gone another place on Lady Musgrave Road where that sign was, in terms of safety, there is no way we could have allowed that one. And that one was not paid for, and we have taken that down. And we're on Molynes Road. We are doing this today. Today is the first day and we are coming back out. We have been talking about this thing and persons just didn't believe. This is the first day of many more days," he warned.