Paphos seeks to tackle visual pollution

[Paphos Life]

Paphos is stepping up efforts to tackle visual pollution, starting with the tourist areas and the area around?? Paphos Airport amid general recognition that is damages the district’s image....

Read the article and chat about it below...

[josef k]

Great initiative. Perhaps they could start with "bar street". It is just a load of empty premises and burnt out bars (with the odd exception of course).

[Lofos-Jan]

This is pretty much just about signs. The mayor absolutely loathes them - any kind, even shop signs, information signs. Soon the tourists will have no idea where to go and what to do!!!

Jeanne

[Lofos-Jan]

And once it is completely sanitised - perhaps his office can see to finishing the unsightly monorail/walkway that seems destined to sit there like that for years to come. And for example the lovely 'old town'. If you don't put up signs/notices to guide tourists/visitors to it and where to park etc. or perhaps a shuttle bus service, then it will become a ghost town. In my opinion he has brought a lot of good and some not so good. I don't think there is much public consultation. I think we are in for more destruction of the traditional and more modern monstrosities.

Jeanne

[trevnhil]

This is pretty much just about signs. The mayor absolutely loathes them - any kind, even shop signs, information signs. Soon the tourists will have no idea where to go and what to do!!!

Jeanne

I have to agree there... One of the restaurants we regularly use had a sign a couple of hundred yards away on a spare plot of land. I assume it was there with the permission of the land owner as it has been there for a good few years now.
But a month or two ago it disappeared. Apparently the powers that be (Chloraka) said it was not allowed, and so it was pulled down

Also in Paphos, a barber I use has had his name sign removed and his barbers pole. And next to him is a travel agent who similarly has had signs removed

[Dominic]

Perhaps replace all the unofficial ad signs with information signs?

[Yioula]

Ktima renovation is a 2 sided coin it has tidied the area up but there is absolutely no shade in the pedestrian area, I cannot understand why some trees were not planted, but it has lost that “old charm” but as in all walks of life we move forward .....

[Kili01]

I think that I mentioned the absence of signage in Ktima (old town) in my earlier posts. It doesn’t help shopkeepers or the public to have to go right up to a shop and peer in the window to see! Some people won’t bother, going to the mall is easier... the dentist near the market was told to take her sign down making it harder for people to find her surgery.
Some signs directing visitors to car parks could be added.. I don’t understand the mayors obsession with signs! He could limit that to the ugly hoardings mainly by property developers which blight the aproach to Paphos on the motorway. They should erect big signs to help peple find the airport on the road junctions too.
If he dislikes ‘visual polution’ how does he view the ugly new high rise blocks with the potential to really blight Paphos, which has been mainly low rise up to now, unlike the other towns in the south? I can only guess that here ‘money talks!

Dee

[Lofos-Jan]

I believe he supports the new high rise developments. To be honest, there isnt much anyone can do to stop them as providing they meet the current planning regulations then there will be no grounds to object to or stop them. As much as I abhor the thought of these along the Kate Paphos coastline (and they have already granted permission to some), I was talking today with my hubby about this and we agreed that the next generation may think them wonderful and the way forward.

Jeanne

[paulok]

Be nice if the “Golden Arches” and a certain three letter chicken outlet could be removed. They are a real eyesore and unfortunately visible for miles

[josef k]

Be nice if the “Golden Arches” and a certain three letter chicken outlet could be removed. They are a real eyesore and unfortunately visible for miles

The "three letter chicken outlet" have had to reduce the height of their main sign significantly in recent months. What annoys me is their inability to spell "through".

[Lofos-Jan]

McD's near the highway have already had to remove the large billboard that used to be positioned below the Golden Arches and which advertised the current special deals.

[Dominic]

How long has that big red flag been flying near M & S in Paphos?