No, not election posters , but planning notices.
The City Of Sound has an article – and a video – about them here.
The primary interface between the UK?s planning system and the people and places it serves is a piece of A4 paper tied to a lamppost in the rain. OK, not always rain. But rain often enough.
The paper is a public notice describing a planning application for some kind of ?development? somewhere in the vicinity. If it?s a significant development, and very close to your property, you may also get a notification in the post. However, this bit of A4 paper, via the local council, is essentially the only attempt to communicate how a neighbourhood may be about to change.
Hat-tip: Jonathan Calder
This seems at odds with the Royal Town Planning Institute’s rose coloured view in the item listed before this one – but they would say that would’nt they……