ADVOKS GLOBAL · KENYA
Physical and Land Use Planning (Advertisement) Regulations
4. Permitted advertisements
Edition: 2022-12-31 · In force
4. Permitted advertisements
(1)The owner of a building or land may display the following illustrated advertisements without the prior consent of the planning authority—(a)notices or signs to be displayed on any premises for the purpose of advertising the fact that a person, partnership or company is carrying on a profession, business or trade at those premises provided that the letters are not greater than 0.3 m. (12 inches) in depth and contains not more than 10 words; but if there is more than one entrance to the premises on different road frontages, two advertisements of 0.3m. (12 inches) in depth of a square meter each may be displayed (on a separate frontage);(b)in the case of offices, a notice board displayed at the entrance of each floor to the premises not exceeding 0.3 sq. m. (3 sq. ft.) total for all occupiers;(c)any advertisement displayed within a building or on an enclosed land or building not visible from a street, notices in connection with medical, recreational, educational, religious, cultural hostel, guest house block of flats, provided that the advertisement is displayed at the premises and does not exceed 1.5 square meters in area; however, if there is more than one entrance to the premises on different road frontages, two advertisements of 1.2 square meters each may be displayed (each on a separate frontage).(2)An advertisement for hawkers once a permit has been issued in terms of the relevant by-laws which is limited to two signs per hawker and the hawker must remove daily at close of business of such hawker.(3)Poster-hoardings which are being used to screen building or construction sites while the work is being carried out on site for a maximum period of twenty-four months, must be displayed not more than one month before works commence, more than fifty square meters in surface area and more than four meters above the ground and should in addition be non-reflective such that they do not flash or cause glare to pedestrians, cyclists and motorists.(4)The advertiser shall submit written notification to the planning authority of intention to display such an advertisement at least fourteen days before the display starts, and display an onsite notice measuring one hundred and twenty centimeters by seventy centimeters and a height of one hundred and seventy centimeters from the ground of the planning permission.(5)An onsite captive balloon advertisement may be displayed if it is—(a)not more than thirty meters above the ground;(b)not displayed for more than fifteen days in any calendar year;(c)not displayed in a conversation area, world heritage site, gazetted national monument.(6)Temporary directional signs intended to direct pedestrians, motorists, and other passersby to an assembly, gathering, activity, or meeting sponsored, arranged, or promoted by a religious, charitable, community service, educational, medical or other similar non-profit organization.(7)Temporary directional signs may be displayed no more than 48 hours before the event and no more than twenty-four hours afterward.