Local Authorities - What we do for communities
We plan, install, operate and maintain local publicity pillars for free.
- Authorities benefit - We share our profits with the authority
- Businesses benefit - PIP helps regenerate town centres
- Communities benefit - Local information: What is on,
where to go, what to buy
- Events and Entertainments benefit - At last legal on-street
publicity
- Deserving causes benefit - We support good causes with
charity discounts
- Flyposters don't benefit - The only realistic and affordable
alternative to "A" boards and flyposting
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Police and Community Information Pillars (CIPs)
Towns even have the option to use the PIPs exclusivly for their own publicity, paying an affordable annual fee, to have their own communication system, just for the council – at an unbeatable maintained service!
Advertise your Christmas light switch on, health and safety campaigns, drug programmes, etc.
to get your council's message across!
Why waste money, producing leaflets, that are then left around the planning office reception, when you can have your own pillars working for you day after day, getting directly to your voters and ratepayers.
Flyposting problems, regeneration of town centres?
This model has also been enthusiastically taken up by police departments. These "ASBO / Police Pillars" are purely dedicated for police use and help to keep the community informed about important issues e.g. alcohol abuse, domestic violence, car crime, local police conact details.
Other people’s pillars
There have been pillars in the UK for hundreds of years, but more recently, towns have tried to provide pillars to help reduce the flyposting problem. Usually this results in legitimising and illegal activity – see the Exeter pictures, and at best look unkempt and untidy.
Flyposting is not cheap!
Someone has to put them up and illegal operators normally charge between £1 and £3 per poster to paste it up on used buildings, only for the poster to be covered up a few days later, if one is lucky to last that long.
Our Pillars
Polycarbonate (transparent) doors have been developed by PIP specifically to help with the war on flyposting. Flyposting is a major concern to most local authorities in the uk, and our publicity does not normally lend itself to the provision of short term publicity, especially in the A3 size format, favoured by most clubs. Having been faced by this challenge by the Aberdeen City council, we trialled polycarbonate doors and this has been quite successful. The door has clear hinges and fits snugly to the cylinder itself. The principle having been proven, we are now able to offer this service to other towns. Woodley and Runcorn have been the next to benefit from having "Event Doors" fitted.
The difference in dealing with this type of advertising is that promoters must pay in advance and the posters are collected locally and displayed for a short time and at short notice.
You have to look at the photograph, left, quite carefully even to see the door!
Pillar cleaning - Our pillars are regulary cleaned and maintained.
Hospitals
The James Paget Hospital Trust is the first hospital in the country to permit publicity pillars to be sited in their grounds. Although these primarily appeal to Taxi firms, florists and mobility businesses, as more and more hospitals are added to the stable, so the larger drug companies will have good reason to become interested.
Hospital Trusts deserve additional funding resources.
Car Parks
We have managed advertising in the Arena Car Park in Coventry for some time and it has it’s own format and rate card.
Further expansion in to car park publicity may take place in the future and any developments will be advised in due course.
Coming soon
Solar power illumination available in 2010 - 60 LED illumination powered by roof mounted solar panels to provide attractive and ambient street lighting and reduce your carbon footprint
Footfall sensors under development now and expected to be available in 2010
Wireless networking in planning for 2010
We have been developing solar powered illumination for our pillars for some considerable time and are now beginning to install prototypes.
This will be rolled out throughout all our pillar sites where permitted over the next year or so and provide ambient illumination at no cost to the authority. The negative carbon footprint is not insignificant as are the further developments associated with this such as wireless broadband, Bluetooth and footfall sensors accommodated in the pillar.
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