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Langley Mill traders can keep their road signs out
Traders whose businesses have been hit by roadworks can keep signs telling people they are open after they were initially told by council officials they would have to be removed.
Shops on Cromford Road, in Langley Mill, had been told by Amber Valley Borough Council to take down the small plastic signs they had put up or they risked being fined.
But now the council has decided the signs can stay while roadworks are carried out as part of the 25m Adsa store development.
The authority will not take action over the signs on lampposts, which contravene highways laws, while the road remains closed until Monday, September 13, after being shut for ten weeks.
Kev Hope, who runs Tru-Fit Tyre and Auto Centre on Cromford Road, said he and two other owners had checked with highways authority Derbyshire County Council before they put up the signs, which cost 40 to have made, on the junction of Lower Dunstead Road and Station Road.
He said despite the all-clear from the county council and the owners making sure the signs would not obstruct or hurt anyone walking by, the next day they received a visit from representatives of Amber Valley Borough Council.
He said: "We spoke to Derbyshire County Council about it and they made absolutely no fuss but the next day we had blokes from Amber Valley Borough Council saying we need to move them.
"They're only to tell people that the shops are still open and when the road will open.
"They're not going to hurt anybody.
"Nobody could walk into them, they're well high enough for that. It's just ridiculous."
A spokesman for Amber Valley Borough Council said: "Although fly-posting is an offence, Amber Valley Borough Council is aware of the current situation in Langley Mill regarding roadworks and will not be asking traders to remove their temporary signage while the roadworks continue."
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