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Originally Posted by Gayle Knight
Signposts aren't necessarily taxpayer funded. For example, I've been trying to get one in Burnley for Mid Pennine Gallery and it would cost £2,000 to do (before you start on one - we're not going to have it done). My point is that you have to apply to the Council for permission, if they grant it you have to pay them before they'll put it up.
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2000 quid does sound exorbitant. Could you not have got one of your local artists-in-residence to bung something togeather and stick it up in the right spot? If Burnley council are twice as efficient as HBC, then the sign would probably be up for 10 years before the council noticed it. Even better, given the exhibition thats just finished, you could have it done bilingual - urdu & pashto - that way it would never get pulled down.
Lovely exhibition, that......although I doubt if many regulars from the tap room in the Stag would have made the journey to see it, signposted or not.
http://www.midpenninearts.org.uk/Gallery.htm