Locals petition against new digital billboard on Sydney main road

Kalila Welch

December 18, 2023 11:44

Residents of Sydney’s Inner West and City of Sydney councils are petitioning the NSW Government Department of Planning and Environment (DPE) to pull the pin on a new digital billboard set to be erected on the corner of Sydney Park Road and King Street.

Launched by David McLaughlin on Change.org, the petition describes the proposed eight by two metre billboard as a “visual monstrosity” that will “rise 5.7 meters above the footpath pushing advertisements 24 hours a day to all drivers and pedestrians in and around the area”.

McLaughlin lives in one of the residential buildings that would have a direct line of site of the proposed billboard, and took action alongside a group of other residents from the complex.

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Kalila Welch

Kalila Welch joined the Mumbrella editorial team in November 2021. She took a brief career break in mid 2023 to complete her Masters of Journalism before returning to Mumbrella for a year.

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