Site Hoarding Graphics and Requirements
Practical guidance from the team that surveys, makes and installs commercial signage. If you have a live project, we can help you choose the right route.
Site hoarding sits in place for months or years, is seen by everyone passing the site, and often carries a planning condition to meet, which makes it a genuine marketing opportunity rather than just a legal obligation to screen a site. On a prominent town centre development, hoarding graphics are frequently the only visible sign of the project for a long stretch of the build, making the design choice more consequential than it first appears. This guide covers what affects the approach and material choice. We produce and install hoarding graphics for development sites across Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire and London.
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Hoarding length and site duration change the material choice: a short-term hoarding might use a printed correx or foamex panel, while a multi-year development justifies a more durable printed and laminated substrate.
What affects the approach
Hoarding length and site duration change the material choice: a short-term hoarding might use a printed correx or foamex panel, while a multi-year development justifies a more durable printed and laminated substrate. Some planning conditions specify screening requirements or even design approval for hoarding graphics, particularly on prominent town centre sites, which we check before production.
Common questions
The hoarding structure itself is often covered by conditions attached to the main development consent rather than needing separate permission, but this varies and we check per site.
Yes, panels can be designed for individual replacement so phase updates or new marketing messages do not require rebuilding the whole hoarding run.
Printed and laminated correx or foamex suits shorter runs, while a more durable printed substrate is worth the extra cost for multi-year developments.
Yes, this is a common requirement and can be incorporated into the overall panel design rather than added as a separate notice.
Usually coordinated with the scaffold or hoarding contractor's own programme, so we plan installation around their timeline rather than in isolation.