Councillors at Harrow council are so fed up with estate agents ‘fly boarding’ houses that they aren’t selling in order to increase brand recognition that they are preparing to hand out ‘retail asbos’ to unlawful agents. Under the Responsible Retailer Act, introduced last year to crack down on shops with block the pavements with goods or rubbish, the council will begin doling out the fines and will destroy the boards at properties that are not for sale or let. In one case agents actually attached three for sale boards to a street light!