Signs support the needs of individuals, businesses and infrastructure providers, provides information and identify places. But signs can also have negative effects due to size, location, or design. The accumulation of many signs can also be a problem.
Did you know?
- Off-site signage means signs which advertise products or services that are not available at the location of the sign.
- Election signage is managed through a combination of Council sign rules and the Electoral (Advertisements of a Specified Kind) Regulations 2005.
- Impacts of signage on visual amenity and character.
- Impacts of signage on traffic safety and wayfinding.
- There is a need to improve the application and clarity of signage rules, including consistency between various authorities responsible for managing signage.
We propose the new plan:
- Enables signs where they are necessary and where there are social, cultural, and economic benefits to the community.
- Maintains the current low-sign environment within Tasman, with specific encouragement for signage advertising products or services to only be located on the site the product or service is available (no off-site signage).
- Strengthens rules to allow a limited number of signs, and manages the effects of those signs on character, amenity, public safety, and traffic safety.
- Supports a low-sign environment and tightly manages off-site signage.
- Provides additional restrictions on signs in sensitive locations, or areas of special character and values.
- Manages illuminated, digital, and moving signage.
- Retains the rules that allow signs for temporary community events, subject to appropriate duration, size, and design.
