Harare City Council Cracks Down On Illegal Billboards

The Harare City Council has announced plans to remove all illegal billboards across the city. In a recent public notice, the local authority urged all property owners with such billboards to engage the Council within seven working days to explore possibilities for regularisation.

The Council further warned that those who fail to comply with the directive will bear the full cost of removal of any illegal signage, billboards, or murals found on their premises. Reads the notice:

The City of Harare would like to inform stakeholders and residents that we will be removing all illegal billboards within Harare.

Most of these illegal billboards are on Council road verges and private properties. Council is encouraging all property owners who have such billboards to engage Council within 7 working days for possible regularisation.

Should property owners defy this notice, the Acting Director of Urban Planning shall proceed to evoke the provisions of Section 20 as read with Section 29B of the Harare (Control of Advertising Signs) By law of 1981 as amended 2015, that is to say the City of Harare will remove the said illegal signage(s) billboards or wall murals and charge the cost incurred to the affected property owners’ rates accounts.

Any representations or objections regarding this matter should reach the Director of Urban Planning within seven (7) working days.

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