Town Centre Forum Favours Direct Action Over Fly Posting

Wrexham Town Centre forum is taking seriously the suggestion to apply ‘cancelled’ stickers to event notices fly posted on empty properties.

During a recent town centre cleanup of Regent Street and Hope Street, a number of posters were taken down from the windows of empty units – with buildings such as the former Clintons looking slightly tidier since the posters were removed. Since the clean up day such posters have been reappearing.

Speaking at yesterday’s Forum meeting, Matt McHale from La Baguette said he has already taken posters down over the past two weeks since the cleanup.

One suggestion that was jokingly put forward was that members of the Forum put ‘cancelled’ signs on posters that are put on shop windows, with the aim to discourage people from fly postering in the area.

While the suggestion was initially put forward as a joke by forum member Bob Gray, there was a general agreement from those who spoke at the meeting that it could seriously be a good way to discourage people from putting posters back up again.

Former Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Wrexham advised the meeting that putting a Cancelled sign on an already existing poster did not necessarily count as fly postering itself as it was adhering to the poster not a shop window.

Several others volunteered to take part in this guerrilla warfare against fly posters, seeing it as a legitimate method of countering the ‘plague’.

Town Centre Forum Chairman Nigel Lewis did point out that perhaps other methods to prevent fly postering should be looked at instead, however no suggestions of those alternatives was put forward.

Planning is already underway for the next town centre cleanup, with early suggestions indicating that Henblas Street could be the next location to be tidied up and painted, in the meantime those looking to fly post ought to be aware their events could be unofficially ‘cancelled’.