Brighton agents appeal board ban

The Brighton and Hove Estate Agents Association has launched an appeal against the local council's decision to ban sale boards.

As The Negotiator revealed on September 10, Brighton & Hove City Council submitted a proposal to extend an existing ban on estate agency boards beyond the city's historic areas at an environment cabinet meeting on September 11.

The ban was voted in, but the BHEAA claims that it was misled in the consultation about which areas it would cover.

"We supported some extension of the ban, but not to take in as much of the city as the council has come up with," says Hugh Tucknott, the BHEAA's immediate past president.

Tucknott claims that agents would have been in favour of a ban with a limited extension.

"We thought that the ban would cover some of the city centre, which we would have supported, but they've [the council] taken it from the marina to Sackville Road and right back to Cromwell Road, which is a huge area," he says.

The BHEAA is currently polling its members to determine the level of resentment towards the ban.

Claire Cooper, press officer for Brighton and Hove City Council, says:

"The council has agreed that these are our proposals and they now go to the Secretary of State.

"There will be a period of further statutory consultation and that's when presumably the estate agents will be putting forward their proposal."

"We believe they're [the council and the BHEAA] in agreement generally but they [the BHEAA] want the area to which the ban will apply to be smaller."

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