Dogs are not wanted on the New Brighton Pier.

The Christchurch City Council’s environment committee yesterday recommended that the council ban dogs from the pier and the pier terminus, which houses the library.

Problems with signboards in city arcades have led to the council looking at its policy again.

The principal environment health officer, Terence Moody, told the environment committee yesterday that the council needed to clarify actions of staff in enforcing the council’s policy.

He said the Mayor, Garry Moore, had written to the High Street Medical Centre saying that he understood its frustration in not being able to place a signboard in Hereford Street, outside the AXA arcade. He said he would ask the committee to revisit the topic.

Mr Moody said he understood other mall occupiers had approached Councillors about signboards and had arisen from enforcement action by staff.

The 1998 policy was that "shops in arcades fronting, or alleyways opening, onto malls (ground floor and upstairs) may have one mobile multi-signboard placed by the entrance way to each arcade."

There were other rules, too, and Mr Moody said the problem with signboards associated with arcades was that the large number of businesses without street entrances. In the AXA Arcade there were 23 potential separate businesses each of which could have a signboard.