Councillor John Fry is tired of seeing real estate signs strewn across verges and footpaths outside properties on the market for lease or sale and says it's time Bathurst Regional Council started enforcing its own rules.

According to those rules, all real estate signs must be "displayed on the same land to which the sign relates" - and that's where Cr Fry says many are failing.

He says the number of real estate signs now appearing on verges are making life difficult for pedestrians and people pushing prams, including some who are being forced onto the road.

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"Council has always been reasonable with the interpretation of its rules as demonstrated by the debate over people hanging signs from fences [such as around Carrington Park]," Cr Fry said.

"But if we are going to tell people to remove their signs from fences then we also need to follow through with getting real estates to rein it in as well."

Cr Fry said the inconvenience for pedestrians and visual pollution of the real estate signs were not his only concerns.

"The other danger is that it's probably inevitable that one of these star pickets is one day going to go through the water services, NBN fibre optics or drainage pipes," he said.

"All those services run along the verges and are vulnerable to someone smashing in a steel post. Who's going to pay for that?"

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He was happy for council to allow some leeway with regards to the rules but said agents were getting away with too much at the moment.

However, Century 21 director Troy Kearney believed Cr Fry was overreacting.

Mr Kearney said all local agents did their best to comply with council rules but were not always responsible for the placement of signs.

"It's hard because we don't put the signs up ourselves and I don't know any agent who does, we get a third party to do it," Mr Kearney said.

"We give them the Ts and Cs and 99 per cent of the time they will comply with the rules, but there's usually a reason if they don't, such as how hard the ground is at the moment."

Mr Kearney said it was disappointing he had not heard from Cr Fry about two Century 21 signs across the road from Cr Fry's home.

"If Cr Fry was to ring up and say to Century 21 that our signs are not in the best position we would go out and try to fix it," he said.

"It''s just sad that someone would rather go to the Western Advocate for a story rather than ring us up."