Rules for posting posters in Stockholm
Want to put up posters in the city? In Stockholm, posting in public places is governed by the municipality’s local public order regulations. Here is what you need to know – from police permits and the property owner’s consent to the city’s free poster spaces.
Do you need a permit to put up posters?
Yes, in most cases. Under Stockholm’s general local public order regulations (Kfs 2025:11, section 11), posters, notices, stickers, stencilled messages and the like may not be put up without a permit from the Swedish Police Authority on building walls, drainpipes, fences, poles, trees and similar surfaces facing or forming part of a public place.
The same requirement applies to projected messages visible in public places. Before the police decide, the municipality must be given the opportunity to comment.
The property owner’s consent
A police permit is only valid together with written consent from the owner of the property or structure where the poster is put up.
The city’s free poster spaces
No permit is needed to put up notices on the city’s free poster spaces. They are signposted as poster sites and are found in several places in Stockholm. Associations, organisers and private individuals can put up posters there without a permit.
Advertising on your own building
A business may put up advertising and notices without a permit on the building where it operates, if the advertising concerns that business.
Banners, signs and placement
Banners, signs, decorations and advertising structures over or facing public places also require a police permit (section 10).
Under section 12, such structures must not obscure road signs or signposting, must not be attached to poles for traffic signals or road signs, and must not endanger road users or pedestrians. On other objects next to traffic areas they must be at least 3.0 metres above the pavement and 4.50 metres above the carriageway.
What happens if you break the rules?
Anyone who breaks the regulations can be fined under the Public Order Act (section 28). Posters put up without a permit also risk being removed.
Do the same rules apply in other municipalities?
Every municipality has its own local public order regulations, but similar rules on police permits for posting in public places exist in many municipalities – and in other countries, local rules apply. Always check the regulations where the campaign will run; we do this as part of our planning.
How we help
We have been posting in Stockholm since 1985 and take care of locations, permits and property owners’ consent. You get a campaign that is seen – and that gets to stay up.
