Mumbai: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has banned new hoardings atop residential and commercial buildings within the city limits.
The civic body also decided to ban the erection of hoardings above all city buildings which are over 30 years old.
The civic body has also increased the distance between two licensed advertisement hoardings from 20 m to 100 m. Hoardings have also been banned around religious sites.
A circular in this regard will be issued within two days and will be applicable to 35,079 structures in the city. At present, 630 buildings in the city have hoardings erected atop them.
In case of hoardings which have already been erected on terraces of old buildings, the licence period will be allowed to expire.
In such cases, the licenses will not be renewed, informed additional municipal commissioner Mohan Adtani.
