Hammersmith & Fulham Council have started demanding estate agents gain planning permission before throwing up for sale boards on certain street in the borough, where large Victorian houses split into numerous flats are creating forests of notices. They appear to have (pdf warning) brought the boards into line with other advertising notices.

The affected streets are:

Baron's Court Road
Castletown Road
Charleville Road
Challenor Crescent
Comeragh Road
Fairholme Road
Perham Road
North End Road (nos 86-110 west side, nos 179-225 east side)
Addison Gardens
Hazlitt Road
Lakeside Road
Maclise Road
Sinclair Gardens
Sinclair Road

Agents who put up boards in these designated areas could face a £150 fine. I wonder if that will be enough to discourage an agent who could profit from being the only board in the village?