Uk Flags Flying in Grantham

Uk flags are flying in Grantham on street lights who has made the application to fly these flags and has the highways authority agreed to the flying of these flags on the highways and how many flags have been authorised.

I can confirm that the information requested is held by Lincolnshire County Council. I have detailed below the information that is being released to you. 

1.  No applications have been made to the council for the flying of flags from lampposts in Grantham. As such, the council has not agreed to any requests.

We recognise that communities often wish to express national pride, celebration, or remembrance through the display of flags and decorations. We appreciate the sentiment behind these gestures and our standard practice is not to proactively remove such items from highway assets, including street lighting columns, unless they pose a safety concern.

This approach reflects the need to balance community expression with the practical limitations of our resources and the importance of proportionality in our operations.

We do not actively encourage the attachment of items to our infrastructure, but where they do not present a risk, we take a pragmatic and proportionate stance.

Our priority remains ensuring the safety and integrity of the highway network, while being mindful of the communities we serve.

Therefore, we will only actively seek to remove a flag where there is a safety concern, e.g. where the flag may obstruct a sign, camera or similar attachment already fixed to the column, or a flag becomes damaged.