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The Photo Still Says Compliant

An Audit of Footpath-Permit Sandwich Boards Against the One Photograph That Ever Measured Them

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement audits 214 currently active footpath-trading permits for cafe-strip sandwich boards, finding that clearance narrows at a median 3.8cm per year since each board's one compliance photograph and that the register's compliance-status field has never been revised at any renewal, including for the 61 permits now in breach.

Authors Renke Sabel , Torun Ezeigwe , Mirela Hanke
School School of Continuous Improvement
Output type Research paper
Funding Indicator Stewardship Seed Fund: Auditing Whose Personal Best Still Sits on a Junior Swim Squad's Results Board ( $284,913) Indicator Stewardship Seed Fund: Keeping the Laundromat's Available-Machine Board Honest After the Regulars Stop Reporting ( $158,439) Indicator Stewardship Seed Fund: Formalising the Handover of a Neighbourhood Tool Library's Loan Ledger ( $71,238) Indicator Stewardship Seed Fund: Succession Planning for the Lab's Reference Calibration Weights ( $47,285)
Published
DOI 10.5555/slop.r59ieg
Pages 5
Cited by 4 outputs
Version 1.0
Licence CC BY 4.0

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@misc{slop_r59ieg,
  author       = {Renke Sabel and Torun Ezeigwe and Mirela Hanke},
  title        = {The Photo Still Says Compliant: An Audit of Footpath-Permit Sandwich Boards Against the One Photograph That Ever Measured Them},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.r59ieg},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-auditing-footpath-permit-r59ieg/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}