Event signs, banners and flags
Promote your event on signs, street banners and flags in the Hastings District with the Hastings District Council.
Signs
There are two options to you for signs:
- Attach to our permanent tourism signs
- Put on private property
Permanent tourism signs
There are eight permanent tourism signs located throughout the district for you to attach your event sign to.
View Advertising Sign Locations - Hastings District in a larger map
Heart of Hawke’s Bay signs
Attach your event sign to the base of any or all of our six Heart of Hawke’s Bay signs for a maximum period of two weeks.
Note: All Heart of HB signs and Havelock North bridge booked till 31 March 2011.
The locations are:
- Karamu Road by the Hawke’s Bay Showground
- Maraekakaho Road (Stortford Lodge) by the city boundary
- Omahu Road by 100k sign
- Pakowhai Road
- Railway Road SH2, and
- Redcliffe Bridge (Waiohiki).
You’ll need to have your sign made by an independent sign maker to the following specifications:
- Material: Corflute
- Colour: Optional full colour or black and white
- Size: 5mm thick, width 2.6m x height 1.2m
Be sure to follow our guidelines for designing an effective promotional sign.
Havelock North Bridge
Attach your event sign alongside other event signs at a permanent sign by the Havelock North bridge in Havelock North for a period of two weeks at a one-off cost of $35.
You’ll need to have your sign made by an independent sign maker to the following specifications:
- Material: Corflute
- Colour: Optional full colour or black and white
- Size: 5mm thick, 1.2m x 1.2m
Be sure to follow our guidelines for designing an effective promotional sign.
Railway Road on edge of race track
Attach your event sign at a permanent tourism sign on Railway Road in Hastings for a period of two weeks, free of charge.
You’ll need to have your sign made by an independent sign maker to the following specifications:
- Material: Corflute
- Colour: Optional full colour or black and white
- Size: 5mm thick, 1.2m x 1.2m
Be sure to follow our guidelines for designing an effective promotional sign.
Erecting signs within private property
You can erect signs promoting your event on private property provided you follow the rules set out in the Hastings District Council District Plan (Section 13.7)
The rules determine the size, location and nature of signs that can be erected and ensures the safety of motorists and pedestrians as well as help maintain and enhance the District.
If your sign does not comply with the rules below, speak to an Environmental Planner on phone 871 5000 about applying for a land use resource consent.
Temporary signs
You can temporarily advertise your community, educational, cultural or sporting event on private property for up to three months prior and seven days after an event.
All temporary signs must be on private property and not on road reserve which includes grass verges and footpaths.
All signs advertising the sale or auction of real estate must be located on the site that is being sold. They can remain on the site for up to one month after the date the property is sold.
The maximum area of temporary signs per site is limited to 2.5m2.
Election signs
You can temporarily display signs for public elections on private property for three months prior to polling day. All devices for Local Body Elections must be removed within seven days after polling day.
The maximum area of election signs per site is limited to 2.5m2.
Permanent signs
Permanent signs can be erected in Rural, Plains and Residential zones without resource consent where they meet the following standards:
- the sign is located on the site where the activity is being carried out
- the sign is completely within private property
- the sign is not illuminated and
- the sign is not on a heritage building.
The maximum total area of signs on a residential site is:
- 2.5m2 for places of assembly, for example churches and halls, education facilities, camping grounds, visitor accommodation
- 1.5m2 for health care services, day care centres, professional offices, homes for the aged and all other signs
The maximum total area of signs on a Rural and Plains zoned site is 2.5m2. If the sign is on a Rural or Plains zoned site that is adjacent to a state highway the following standards apply:
- Lettering must be a minimum height of 120mm in areas of up to 70km/hr speed limit, and 160mm in areas above 70km/h speed limit
- Signs must not be located within 15 metres of an existing official sign or traffic signal
Signs can be erected in all Commercial and Industrial zones without resource consent where they meet the following standards:
- the sign is not on a heritage building
- the sign does not use intermittent or flashing sources of light within 25m of a road intersection.
Signs on verandas must meet the following standards:
- Signs located under verandas must be a minimum of 2.5m above the footpath and set back a minimum of 0.5m from the kerb line
- The width of signs located on veranda fascia is limited to the depth of the fascia
If the sign is fixed to the face of a building it must not do the following:
- project more than 1.0m from the face where the sign is at right angles to the building
- project forward of a vertical line drawn 0.5m inside the face of a kerb
- have a depth of more than 1.0m
- have its lower edge less than 2.5m above the footpath/ground.
The maximum total area of signs on an industrial site is 5.0m2, or 0.7 m2 of signage per metre of site frontage (whichever is larger).
The maximum total area of signs on a commercial site is:
- 2.5m2 for Central Commercial sites with Designated Retail Frontage
- 5.0m2, or 0.7 m2 of signage per metre of site frontage (whichever is larger) for all other commercial sites
For more information about the rules, see Section 13.7 Advertising and signs district wide activity in the District Plan.
Making a complaint
We support and encourage events and businesses in the District, but from time to time we do receive complaints about signs. If you’ve seen a sign which does not comply with our rules, speak to a Planning Compliance Officer on phone 871 5000.
Failure to comply with these rules may result in enforcement action under the Resource Management Act 1991.
Flags
Hastings District Council has permanent flag poles throughout the district for you to book for your event.
Location - number of flags
- Market Street - 21
- Heretaunga Street - 6
- Karamu Road - 14
- Pakowhai Road - 8
- Eastbourne Street by Civic Square (outside the Hastings Library) - 7
- Splash Planet carpark - 5
- Havelock Road - 37
- Joll Road - 5
- Te Mata Road - 14
- Napier Road - 6
- Porter Drive - 5
- Treachers Lane - 4
- Flaxmere Avenue - 55
You’ll need to have your flag made by an independent flag making company to the following specifications:
- Material: Polyknit
- Colour: Optional full colour or black and white
- Size: 1.8m x 0.9m
Banners
Hastings District Council has two permanent banner locations in Hastings; Heretaunga Street West and Heretaunga Street East.
You’ll need to have your banner made by an independent banner making company to the following specifications:
- Material: Vinyl with rope ties at each corner
- Colour: Optional full colour or black and white
- Size: length 8m x height 950mm
How to design an effective sign, banner or flag
The key to designing an effective sign, banner or flag is to ensure you catch the reader’s attention in about two seconds. Especially considering a lot of signs in the District are placed alongside roads.
Key things to remember:
- Include only minimal information with a strong call to action. Consider only the name of your event, dates and a link to a website and phone number. You’ll probably need to include your sponsors' logos too if relevant
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Only choose two different fonts to make your wording stand out. Fonts should be clearly legible from far away:
Letter height (mm)
Maximum readable distance (m)
Best impact (m)
75
30
9
100
45
12
150
60
18
200
106
24
230
122
27
250
137
30
300
160
36
380
192
45
460
228
55
610
305
73
760
380
91
910
458
110
1010
533
128
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Choose one colour scheme and stick to it. Opposite colours of the colour wheel compliment best:
- Black on yellow
- Black on white
- Yellow on black
- White on blue
- Green on white
- Blue on yellow
- White on green
- White on brown
- Brown on yellow
- Brown on white
- Yellow on brown
- Red on white
- Yellow on red
- Red on yellow
- White on red
Here are some examples of how a good roadside sign should be designed:
Booking advertising spaces
Book these advertising spaces by contacting the Hastings District Council on phone 871 5000 or email events@hdc.govt.nz
If you’d like to book a Hastings District Council sign, banner or flag location, firstly establish:
- Dates you’d like to book
- Locations you’d like to book
- What information you intend to have on your sign, banner or flag
then contact us on 871 5000 or email events@hdc.govt.nz.
Book in advance as spaces fill quickly, especially over summer and we can’t always guarantee availability.
If you’re unsure whether you may need a land use resource consent, speak to an Environmental Planner on 871 5000.