A PROJECT to erect vertical banners on lamp posts in Tavistock town centre is to be pushed forward ? despite the fact they might not be granted planning consent. Members of Tavistock Town Council heard that investigations were being carried out with a firm from South Molton which produces banners suitable for hanging from existing street light poles. Devon County Council has also been asked about the possibility of using street lamps by the Square and Guildhall car park. The problem of planning consent has yet to be solved however ? the council has been told by West Devon?s planning officers that such banners would be more suitable for a town by the seaside and would be out of character in the centre of Tavistock. Cllr Iain Andrews, chairman of the town council?s properties committee, told members he had recently spoken to a town council elsewhere in Devon which had received ?very positive? treatment from its district authority. He said the borough council had a vertical banner at the entrance to its own offices in Kilworthy Park and there was a similar style banner outside the town?s library in Plymouth Road ? it was ?a cheek? to suggest they would not be suitable in the middle of Tavistock. Cllr Norma Woodcock said: ?Okehampton has some, and that?s not by the seaside. I would like to pursue this. Let?s do it step by step.? Councillors agreed the clerk should continue to investigate banner costings, before a formal planning application is submitted.
